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TIL The oldest university is a mosque founded in 859

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PYNvL TIL that tonnage of air-conditioning is the amount of heat it removes in an hour. 1 Ton AC can remove the heat enough to melt 1 ton Ice in 1 hour.
aONA TIL Erwin Rommel humanely treated captured soldiers, ignored orders to kill Jews, civilians and conspired to assassinate Hitler. After his death soldiers on both sides pay respect to his grave and he is the only member of The Third Reich to have a museum dedicated to him.
xV5a7 TIL Crows sometimes place nuts on the road so their tough shells can be broken open by passing vehicles. They even know to wait for the red light of traffic signals to retrieve the nuts.
l7XYr TIL about Brachycephalus, the world's smallest vertebrate, a frog so small it could sit on the head of a pencil eraser. Their auditory systems have also shrunk: at least two species can't hear their own mating calls.
Alga TIL that Jeffrey Jones, best known for playing principal Edward Rooney in ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,’ has been arrested on multiple occasions for employing a 14-year-old boy to pose for sexual photos and subsequently failing to update his sex offender registration