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TIL: With Approval from Vatican: Canaanite Idol ‘Moloch’ Put on Display in Rome

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64ym TIL Brian May started writing his PhD thesis on the Zodiacal dust cloud in 1971 before beginning his musical career as the guitarist for Queen. He finished the thesis 36 years later, in 2007.
VMdg8 TIL that generally speaking, a Dane speaking Danish can understand and be understood by Norwegians speaking Norwegian, and Swedes speaking Swedish. This is because the languages of Scandinavia are considered "mutually intelligible".
4XjRR TIL that the Nazis also had a special Concentration Camp for "difficult" girls between 16 and 21. Many of them were classified as criminals only because they had premarital sex or were lesbians. From 1942 until 1945 more than 1200 girls were kept there and many of them did not survive.
neXQP TIL the HMS Belfast, which served in D-Day and fought in the Korean War, expected to be scrapped in 1967, so the Imperial War Museum, the National Maritime Museum, and the Ministry of Defence all decided that it'd be preserved. Now, it is a museum on the River Thames.
eYYL TIL humans can enter sleep cycles of 24-48 hours in the absence of sunlight