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TIL a gladiator named Asteropaeus fought 107 times and survived to retire

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YpQAx TIL the Nazi war machine of WWII was not fully mechanized, and was heavily reliant on horses for transport
PYg7Z TIL There's a zip file titled '42.zip'. It's known as a zip bomb or 'zip of death' because it's original size is only 42 kilobytes. But when it's uncompressed, it expands to 4.5 petabytes (4,500,000 gigabytes), crashing the antivirus program and then the system.
6E4XZ TIL of Paint Drying, a 10 hour movie about paint drying on a wall. Created as a protest to force British Board of Film Classification watch all 10 hours to rate the movie
5YWyR TIL that a square-shaped building with a volume of 1.2 billion cubic meters could fit inside Earth's entire human population.
BrkZd TIL There's a natural phenomenon known as “thundersnow”, which happens when thunderstorms form in wintry conditions, giving rise to heavy downpours of snow, thunder and lightning.