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TIL that during a game of backgammon in the year 480, the Byzantine Emperor Zeno had a dice roll that was so unlucky that he had it recorded and we still know of it to this day.

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N7xn6 TIL the female twin of a bull almost always becomes an infertile intersex cow called a Freemartin
GYAO1 TIL there are no Starbucks in Italy
9JXG TIL when a marine asked his friend to watch his house while he was gone the friend decided to do $70,000 worth of renovations on it.
Reb7 TIL Researchers developed a blood test that can detect if a person has cancer from a single drop of blood with 96% certainty for most cancer types.
EPPx TIL that during a five-day battle against mercenaries in the Congo, the besieged Irish Army radioed back to HQ “We will hold out until our last bullet is spent. Could do with some whiskey”.