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TIL That when Soviet Archaeologists opened the Mongol conqueror Timor’s tomb, they found a message on the inside saying ‘Whosoever Disturbs My Tomb Will Unleash an Invader More Terrible than I.’ On that very same day, Nazi Germany commenced Operation Barbossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union.

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BrE9x TIL author Michael Crichton felt one of his college writing professors was unfairly grading his essays C+. In what he described as a scientific experiment, Crichton submitted an essay by George Orwell under his own name and the professor gave him a B-.
LkA6P TIL that the 2000 hit "Who Let The Dogs Out" by the Baha Men was a cover of a '98 song "Doggies" by Anslem Douglas, which was informed by a '94 techno hit by Twenty Fingers, which was taken from a '92 hit by Miami Boom, which likely was inspired by a '86 TX highschool football chant
xYZ1 TIL: During WW2, there was an Edinburgh derby (in soccer/football) that was so foggy, neither the commentator or the spectators knew what was going on. The commentator couldn’t mention the fog, incase Germans were listening. He described a fake game but under the fog it ended 6-5.
9Yowr TIL During your sleep. Your brain will systematically shut down parts of it and push fluid in. Washing and cleansing itself. Meaning we're literally brainwashed on a daily basis.
5jJ8 TIL the original soundtrack of “Who wants to be a millionaire” took the pitch up a semitone for each subsequent question, in order to increase tension as the contestant progressed through the game.