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TIL a Roman politician concluded his every speech, regardless the topic, with the phrase “and Carthage must be destroyed”

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MevXa TIL that every year, a regatta is held in Alice Springs. Due to the lack of water in Central Australia, contestants have to carry bottomless "boats" trough a dried-out river. When the river did carry water in 1993, the regatta became "the only regatta ever cancelled because of wet weather".
rNNK1 TIL Thomas Wise was a keen collector of first editions in original condition dating back to Elizabethan era and given an honorary M.A. by University of Oxford. He parlayed his reputation as a collector of books into a career in creating and selling forgeries of nearly 300 works of English authors.
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x6p8w TIL the Beatles were not legally dissolved as a band until 1974 when John Lennon signed the final contract while on vacation at Disney World in Florida