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TIL that AOL had volunteer mods that filed a class action lawsuit against AOL, claiming that AOL volunteers performed work equivalent to employees and thus should be compensated according to the Fair Labor Standards Act.

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W5Ko TIL In Ancient Rome, flaming war pigs were used to counter war elephants. The siege of Megara in 266 BC was broken when Megarians doused pigs in pitch, set them alight and drove them towards the enemy’s massed war elephants. The elephants bolted in terror, killing a large number of soldiers.
Bg8OW TIL about Huis Ten Bosch in Nagasaki, Japan; a theme park which recreates the Netherlands by displaying life-sized copies of old Dutch buildings.
QNXNM TIL that in 1882, British socialite and actress Lillie Langtry began appearing on posters for Pears soap, making her the first celebrity to do a product endorsement.
PY1pw "Snow leopards are relics of the ice ages, adapted to extreme cold, to blizzards and vertical slopes, and are rarely seen below 6,000 feet. Their pelts are smoky white with ashy rosettes. Their eyes, sliced by vertical feline pupils, are the color of hoar frost. Half of their six-foot-long bodies consists of a magnificent tail: a thick, furry balancing rod for a cat that can leap 30 feet through the air."
pYP9N TIL of Ezzard Charles who is the only boxer to have lasted the full 15 rounds against Rocky Marciano. Charles who had killed an opponent earlier in his career, would also give Marciano trouble in their rematch and split Rocky’s nose in half, before Rocky managed to KO Charles at the last minute.