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TIL on August 6th, 1970, over 300 hippies invaded Disneyland and assumed control over Tom Sawyer Island

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jxjN TIL that in a siege against a gallic city, Julius Caesar actually built a second wall around the city to keep its occupants from leaving.
kJ054 TIL during the cold war NATO conducted an experiment to find the best way to shot down helicopters with their jets, to everyone surprise helicopters proved to be a formidable foe to Jets and managed to get up to a 5-to-1 kill ratio against Jets in close combat.
Gd57 TIL That the terms ‘highbrow’ and 'lowbrow’ come from Phrenology, a pseudoscience which determines intelligence based on the shape of ones skull.
8Wk8 TIL that when the Brazilian battleship São Paulo was being towed across the Atlantic to be scrapped, her towlines were snapped by a storm and she drifted away. Despite British and American aircraft scouring the Atlantic for her, no sign of her or her 8 crew members were ever found.
Ym0r TIL that women in Ancient Egypt and 18th century France used to keep a scented pouch in their vagina for a while before presenting it to a prospective lover.