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TIL about a unit of measurement: The Smoot

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JNEj TIL Thrasyllus of Mendes commented on Caligula saying he had “no more chance of becoming emperor than of riding a horse across the Bay of Baiae”. After he became emperor, Caligula constructed a temporary bridge across the Baiea using ships as pontoons and rode his horse across.
5gW8 TIL that in 2006, doctors removed two fetuses from inside a 2-month-old girl that had the rare condition known as Fetus in Fetu.
78n6P TIL: In 2011, a pod of sperm whales adopted a bottlenose dolphin with a deformed spine.
R7mew TIL the CIA declassified a document where a subject found and gave the exact coordinates to underground USSR facility while Astral Projecting
MbQK TIL 80,000 Inca warriors were defeated by only 168 Spaniards in the Battle of Cajamarca (outnumbered 450:1) in 1532