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TIL saying “ahoy-hoy” was at one time the preferred way to answer the phone.

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b9Wl9 TIL after capturing Alexandria, Diocletian ordered his soldiers to kill until the blood reached his horse's knees. As if on cue, the horse fell, staining its knees in blood. He took the gods' hint, and stopped the massacre. After he left, the Alexandrians erected built a statue in the horse's honor.
VBdPk TIL That following the Messinian salinity crisis, during which the Mediterranean almost completely dried up for 630,000 years, 5.33 Ma ago the Zanclean flood happened: water broke through the Gibraltar Strait, filling the Mediterranean within months at 100,000,000 m³/s – 1,000x flow of the Amazon!
W7wO9 TIL that delilah and the singer from plain white T's never actually dated
LQbxr TIL about Ashrita Furman, a New York native who holds the Guinness World Record for the most Guinness World Records. He began breaking records in 1979 and has set over 600 records as of 2017.
DJOr TIL that in Batman’s early comics, he used guns and killed criminals