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TIL of Publius Ventidius who was paraded as a baby in Rome as the child of a conquered enemy, grew up to be a Roman general, thereby becoming the only known person to be on both sides of a a triumphal procession, "a victim turned victor"

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R4y6 TIL there are over two million saunas in Finland and 5 million inhabitants, making an average of one sauna per household
n0Ar TIL that in 1997 Morgan Freeman offered to cover the cost of prom for a Mississippi school that held two racially segregated proms every year, provided that the one Freeman would be covering would just be one racially integrated prom. This offer was refused until 2008.
XX4E TIL to find interstellar life, one of the things astronomers look out for is a Dyson Sphere, a power plant which harnesses the power of its solar system’s sun by surrounding it with solar panels. It is theorized to be a logical necessity for a spacefaring civilization to sustain intergalactic travel
PPVL TIL that Astronomers had made a sweet discovery: simple sugar molecules floating in the gas around a star some 400 light-years away, suggesting the possibility of life on other planets.
GA675 TIL about the Lump-Of-Labor Fallacy, which is the misconception that there is a finite amount of work to be done in an economy which can be distributed to create more or fewer jobs.