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TIL that Caesar’s last words to Brutus (‘Kai su, teknon’, literally ‘You too, child’) may have been intended along the lines of ‘See you in hell, punk’, rather than as an expression of shock at being stabbed by one he had treated like a son, because the words ‘kai su’ often appear on curse tablets.

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Wkx04 Ever looked at a picture of the supercontinent Pangea and wondered where your current address would have been 250 million years ago? A new interactive map provides this very service, allowing you to see modern locations across 750 million years of our planet’s history.
xbN5 TIL the flag of Bikini Atoll is symbolic of the islanders’ belief that a debt is still owed by the U.S. to the atoll because of the thermonuclear detonations on the islands.
eApk TIL that in Paraguayan culture, an unwanted pregnancy can be passed off as the child of Kurupi, a creature whose penis is so long it wraps around his waist several times and can impregnate women through opened windows
Z8JVp TIL For the first time in 950 years, the Bayeux Tapestry will leave France and go on display in Britain. It will take several years for the tapestry to be made ready to be moved.
GA6DG TIL the equinox has a related phenomenon: the equilux. The equinoxes are the days when the equator is at its closest point to the sun. Locally, however, some days before or after an equinox is when daylight and darkness specifically are closest to equal. This is the equilux.