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TIL there are myths of an advanced civilization of red haired people who disappeared after the last ice age (5,000+ years ago)

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l7REV TIL: Philip II, father of Alexander the Great, is credited with creating one of the earliest professional armies in the world, ruling from 359-336BC. Philip’s reforms led to Macedonia becoming hegemon of the Greek peninsula, paving the way for Alexander’s conquest of Persia by 326 BC.
woD46 TIL that Mike Tyson had a series on Animal Planet in 2001 about the world of competitive pigeon racing.
BgXbK TIL that a poem written by Ed Justin in the 1980s called Pumpkinhead was the inspiration for the horror film Pumpkinhead.
yQo5w TIL of Philoxenus, a Court Poet for the Tyrant of Syracuse, who was jailed & sent to the quarries for voicing a bad opinion about his poetry, but later pardoned, & brought back for another reading. When the tyrant asked how he liked it, he turned to the guards & said "take me back to the quarries."
epAjD TIL about Operation Abacus, a Canadian military operation in response to anticipated disruption due to the Y2K bug. It was intended as a contingency plan not just to coordinate the protection of government computers but also ensure social order if computing systems went down.