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TIL The Titanic Was Found During a Secret Cold War Navy Mission

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Me6ba TIL the Ancient Greek author Diodorus Siculus wrote that the people of Spain's Balearic Islands loved to be naked & loved women. The Greeks called the islands Gymnesiae meaning naked (γυμνοί) & legend states the the inhabitants would give 3 or 4 men as ransom for 1 woman.
9KRQ TIL that the British explorer James Cook was so well respected that during the American Revolutionary War, Benjamin Franklin wrote to all American colonial warships that; upon encounter, to give safe passage to his crew and vessel, and to consider them as ‘common friends to mankind’
R5dJ1 TIL In 1462, the Genoese lord of the island of Lesbos surrendered to the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed the Conquerer on the condition that his men's heads be spared. The Sultan agreed and had them cut in half instead.
x61X1 TIL if you have a Nintendo Switch and you're having a problem with your controllers, you can send them to Nintendo and they'll repair them for free.
e0eRL TIL in the 1900s Doctors warned women that riding a bicycle may cause them to acquire "bicycle face"