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TIL A British ship snuck into the French-built Suez Canal the night before opening ceremonies to spite the French.

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97oD TIL that Thomas Peterffy was told by NASDAQ that his algorithmic trading was illegal because it lacked a keyboard so he created a robot with fingers to type all trades on the keyboard which made it legal - “the robot typed so fast it sounded like a machine gun.”
W7ZoY TIL about the siege of Dura-Europos, one of history's first use of chemical weapons and tunnel warfare, during the siege the Persians dug tunnels to bypass the Roman walls, Romans dug their own tunnels to reach them and fight them but the Persians released sulphur dioxide in the tunnels, killing 20.
5KGB TIL The military spends more money on air conditioning than NASA’s entire budget
pYeW4 TIL the 1970s hit "No Sugar Tonight" was inspired when BTO singer Randy Bachman was fearing a street confrontation with a biker gang. The biker's girlfriend suddenly drove up and yelled at him for not watching the kids and taking out the trash, and there would be "no sugar tonight".
ObpL TIL The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy Theme Song Is Actually An Entire Song By The Eagles!