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TIL there was a band of 150 gay couples from Thebes, who defeated a Spartan army, and went undefeated for 30 years. The Sacred Band of Thebes

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6EAal TIL over a hundred years ago, virtually every American city had public streetcars that people took to work. That includes cities we don't think of as hubs for mass transit today, like Atlanta, Raleigh, and Los Angeles. Today, just 5 percent of U.S. workers commute via via public transit.
nWGxP TIL that Chinese forces caused a flood as a defensive scorched earth tactic, during the Sino-Japanese War. It was tactically successful, but came at a great cost to civilians.
5ZMP TIL Elvis once handed Alice Cooper one of his guns and asked him to point it at him to show off his karate skills. Cooper later said that he genuinely wanted to pull the trigger to do something legendary with his life, but Elvis knocked the gun out of his hand and pinned him before he could fire.
loKe7 TIL that baby hammerhead sharks have a round head to ease the live birthing process of the mother sharks.
oBga7 TIL about the Boxing Day Tsunami in Sumatra: It was the eighth biggest earthquake recorded in history. The earthquake measured 9.3 on the Richter Scale and it caused 230 000 deaths around Asia.