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TIL during 9/11 nearly 500,000 people were transported out to safety by boat in 9 hours, compared to Dunkirk which saved 300,000 troops in three days

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W7YlB TIL after Crassus defeated Spartacus, the 6K prisoners they took were put on a cross every 100ft on their journey back
LyWv TIL: When the Ocarina of Time was remade for the 3DS, Nintendo purposefully did not fix many of the original game’s bugs, to give players as close an experience to the N64 version as possible.
0yYL TIL in 1975 a county clerk in Colorado issued a same-sex marriage license, finding no law that forbade it. When a man came to her office to marry his horse in protest, she determined the 8-year-old horse was too young to get married without parental consent and refused the license.
v19vB TIL The Mad Hatterpillar wears its old heads as hats.
69Pm TIL U2 has pushed for countries to give 1% to African aid which is paid by tax payer money, of which U2 was exempt under Irish tax laws. When Ireland reformed its laws, U2 moved operations to the Netherlands to pay less in taxes which would support their cause.