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TIL that Steve Irwin was buried at his beloved Australia Zoo

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BrWyy TIL that Jerusalem had been fought over 16 times in its history, attacked 52 times, captured and recaptured 44 times, besieged 23 times, and destroyed twice.
7RvP TIL Tsar Bomba, the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated, was so powerful that it created seismic shocks that were measurable even on their third passage around the Earth.
6eQm TIL that during Napoleons 6 day stay in Malta he; reformed national administration, created twelve municipalities, created a public finance administration, abolished all feudal privileges and slavery, framed a family code, nominated twelve judges and established public education.
xnWD TIL: When clasped by a predator, the spiny mouse is able to shed its skin, sometimes losing up to 60 percent of it’s skin in a single slough to escape. It can then regrow it over the course of a few days. It is the only known mammal to practice Autotomy, or self amputation.
xVAR5 TIL prior to China being unified as an empire in 221 BC, there was the Warring States period, in which 7 independent states were in a more or less permanent state of war for about 250 years.