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yVOMV TIL of the lost civilization of Tartessos in modern Spain, who's language is unclassified. The location is unknown but is thought to have been near a giant estuary that turned into the Guadalquivir Marshes. Some to speculate Tartessos to be the biblical Tarshish or even Atlantis.
1e6X TIL the film Wag the Dog, a film about a president who creates a fake war to cover-up a sex scandal, was release one month before the Lewinski scandal broke.
4XE55 TIL of Cocaethyline, a substance produced by the body when cocaine and alcohol are consumed together. Its euphoriant properties are so powerful it causes feelings of acute well-being almost universally among users, but it's also about 25 times more likely to kill you than cocaine alone.
Meo9A TIL Loraine Allison was the only child from first class to die on the Titanic. She had remained with her parents on the ship looking for her baby brother who had unknown to them already safely left in a lifeboat with his nanny.
wokyE TIL Wensleydale cheese was about to go out of production in the 1990s when it was featured at random in the Wallace and Gromit shorts and movie