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TIL in the 4th Century BC, an elite military company called The Sacred Band of Thebes, which consisted of 150 male lovers, defeated a larger Spartan army in battle

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kOxD7 TIL in 2012, a burger king employee anonymously posted an image on 4-chan of him putting his feet in lettuce, with the caption: "This is the lettuce you eat at Burger King." It took 20 minutes for people to track down the branch the employee worked at and contact the news. He was promptly fired.
4XWj5 TIL The first spaceflight that landed humans on the moon (Apollo 11) had an on board guidance computer with only 4kB of RAM (32,768 bits) and 72kB (589,824 bits) of ROM.
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5Q7p TIL in 2006 Bill Murray joined an NYU archaeology team for a dig in the Mediterranean because he felt like it
akk0 TIL an early version of Picasso’s The Weeping Woman was stolen from the National Gallery of Victoria with the ransom demand being an increase in funding to the arts. The painting was later found undamaged in a locker at a Melbourne train station and the theft remains unsolved today.