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TIL that the Spartans grew their hair long, because “Long hair adds beauty to a good face, and terror to an ugly one” according their leader, Lycurgus.

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Y7mNZ TIL a glue fire in 1889 destroyed 31 blocks of Seattle's Pioneer Square neighborhood. The streets were later elevated, leaving a network of unused underground passageways and basements.
wLjR8 TIL that Peter Jackson spent the last few years working on a special technology which revives old B&W WW1 footage and is portraying it in full colour in his new movie "They Shall Not Grow Old". Jackson used authentic WW1 uniform and real weaponry which was used back then to create this restoration.
b9Yj TIL that there is flood story that predates Noah’s Ark.
6955Z TIL: Multimillionaire Maria Assunta, upon her death left her entire fortune of $13 million, all of her properties such as villas, homes, and land to her cat Tommaso, making the cat one of the world's richest felines. Just a few years prior, Tommaso was a stray cat she found in the streets of Rome.
lowlG TIL that Neil Young was once banned by MTV for his hilarious takedown of major corporate brands