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TIL that hyenas genetically are cats, not dogs.
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TIL people used to gamble on the outcomes of battle. In 1691, over £200,000 (£40,000,000 in modern money) was bet on the outcome of the Siege of Limerick alone.
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TIL that Americans are comparatively no more religious than the rest of the world. However, when polled on the matter, they are twice as likely to claim to be religious.
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TIL that Roald Dahl wrote the screenplay for the James Bond film “You Only Live Twice”
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TIL a 28 hairdresser woman locked a robber in her basement/utility room when he tried to rob her shop. She fed him Viagra and made him into a sex slave for 3 days.
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TIL about the modern 300 - in 1821, during the Greek War of Independence, 120 Greek men held out against 8,000 Ottoman soldiers, causing 900 casualties against 6 of their own deaths. This bought time for the Greek army to regroup.