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TIL Roman Senator Cato the Elder would end every one of his speeches with "Carthago delenda est" which translates to, "Furthermore, I consider that Carthage must be destroyed"

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8oNb TIL Neil deGrasse Tyson assisted DC Comics in selecting a real-life star that would be an appropriate parent star to Superman’s home planet Krypton. A red dwarf star in the constellation Corvus was chosen. Corvus is also Latin for “Crow” which is the mascot of Superman’s high school.
6E5bY TIL that it cost $20 million to evict the last four tenants of a Manhattan apartment building to renovate it. The last tenant was so stubborn and savvy that he received $17 million of the money, plus use of a $2 million condo for life.
awyQL TIL: The three horizontal black lines on the side of a school bus are there for emergency responders. In an emergency where the doors and windows can't be opened and they need to cut into the bus, the lines show the positions of the floor boards, the bottom of the seats, and the top of the seats.
Br8ax TIL Adidas does not sponsor players who are Scientologists
7Wk7 TIL a soccer team in Madagascar in a sign of protest spent an entire match scoring own goals on themselves. The game ended 149-0.