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TIL: It would've taken Homer 50 hours to sing the entirety of the Iliad and Odyssey

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EXEX TIL Two notes can be sung by one person at the same time, aka. polyphonic overtone singing
jNBoE TIL that on December 16, 1965, NASA received a prank transmission from two astronauts: "We have an object, probably in polar orbit... I see a command Module and and eight smaller modules in front. The pilot of the command module is wearing a red suit." They then started playing, "Jingle Bells".
74Mb TIL: The Emperor of China who built the Great Wall suppressed intellectual thoughts and unified political opinion by burning books and burying scholars alive.
XEolP TIL of the Great Tokyo Air Raid (1945) during which 1665 tons of incendiary bombs were dropped on Tokyo in a span of 3 hrs, resulting in 100k deaths and 1M displaced. It's considered the most destructive bombing raid in human history.
p79N TIL Adobe actively supports the transition of Flash to HTML5 and have released a tool that converts Flash to HTML5.