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TIL it’s 1437 in the Islamic calendar, but their year is only 354 days long — meaning the Islamic year will eventually match our year on exactly May 1, 20874 AD

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OGj8e TIL in the 52 BCE Battle of Alesia, Julius Caesar’s troops built 25 miles of earthen walls in a few weeks, including spiked trenches, hidden pits, water-filled moats, wooden walls, stakes with iron hooks, and hundreds of lookout towers. The Gauls lost 290,000 troops, to Caesar’s 12,800 casualties.
x8yo TIL that the person in one of the most famous suicide pictures(The Most Beautiful Suicide) ever taken left a note asking not let anyone see her body and to destroy it.
vyQx TIL that a 50 second “movie”, released in 1896, of a train approaching the camera, caused moviegoers to panic and run to the back of the room to avoid the train.
QNlve TIL birds can instantly eject their tail feathers when in danger
jLLp TIL the cross-dressing character “Corporal Klinger” on MAS*H was inspired by the ‘50s/'60s counterculture comedian Lenny Bruce who was dishonorably discharged from the Navy during WWII for wearing a woman’s uniform and claiming homosexual tendencies