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TIL that every natural number less than 10^126 is nameable.

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Wk4xL TIL that Simulants are organisms or substances which mimic physical or biological properties of real biological agents, without being pathogenic.
8wja TIL When Pink Flyod was completing “Shine On You Crazy Diamond,” which was an exploration of their former band mate Syd Barrett’s mental decline, an overweight man with a shaved head and eyebrows entered the studio. He turned out to be Syd Barrett himself, who they had not seen in 7 years.
JNEj TIL Thrasyllus of Mendes commented on Caligula saying he had “no more chance of becoming emperor than of riding a horse across the Bay of Baiae”. After he became emperor, Caligula constructed a temporary bridge across the Baiea using ships as pontoons and rode his horse across.
LlJ9 TIL Count Dracula got his name from his father being in a secret knight order named “Order of the Dragon” whose job was to protect Christianity from Ottoman empire
XEga6 TIL of Muhammad Ali Pasha, an Albanian who rose through the ranks of the Ottoman army to become viceroy of Egypt. While viceroy, he destroyed the first Saudi state, conquered Sudan, and launched a rebellion which almost overthrew the Sultan, before being halted by European intervention.