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TIL the Carthaginian general Hannibal Barca was so terrifying to Rome that they would use the phrase "Hannibal is at the gates" whenever disaster struck. When the romans finally defeated Hannibal, they built statues of him in the streets of Rome to advertise their defeat of such a worthy adversary.
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Submitted September 07, 2022 at 09:39PM by firstpc13
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TIL an interrobang is an obscure punctuation mark that combines a question mark with an exclamation mark. Its intended use is to simultaneously ask a question and express surprise. It can be accessed in the Wingdings 2 font set.
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Submitted September 07, 2022 at 09:14PM by Not_Not_Matt
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TIL that in 1909 the entire town of Ulysses, Kansas was relocated 3 miles west to escape their debts
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Submitted September 07, 2022 at 10:12PM by tomatoaway
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TIL that while Canada is the 2nd largest country on earth, over 90% of Canada's population resides within 150 miles of the US border.
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Submitted September 08, 2022 at 12:05AM by rafaelninja13
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TIL of the Mawza Exile of 1679 in which the Jews of Yemen were expelled to the desert of Mawza to die of exposure. After 1 year, the exiles were recalled to their homes to resume their work as the remaining Yemeni population was deprived of their usual goods and services during the exile.
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Submitted September 08, 2022 at 12:20AM by Kooker321
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TIL: Antarctica is the largest desert in the world. A desert is a barren area of landscape where little precipitation occurs and, consequently, living conditions are hostile for plant and animal life.
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Submitted September 07, 2022 at 11:36PM by StonerCPA
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TIL that pre-Hispanic Mexicans believed that gold deposits were divine diarrhea, the leavings of the sun-god Tonatiuh as he passed through the underworld each night.
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Submitted September 07, 2022 at 11:14PM by djublonskopf
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TIL of Heteropaternal Superfecundation - When twins are conceived with sperm from two different men. One way this can occur is when the sperm survives for a few days inside the female reproductive tract.
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Submitted September 08, 2022 at 05:54AM by Allgoodnamesinuse
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TIL For weeks, Ganeshpur, a village in eastern Bihar, India, had to put up with frequent power outages that only seemed to occur a few hours after sunset. It was later revealed that an electrician was cutting the village's power whenever he wanted to see his girlfriend in secrecy in the dark.
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Submitted September 08, 2022 at 06:57AM by delano1998
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TIL the US government in the 1930's tried to make a canal called the "Cross-Florida Barge Canal" that cut through the Florida peninsula to create a shortcut from the Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic Ocean. It was going to have a series of locks like the Panama Canal. It was shut down by Nixon.
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Submitted September 08, 2022 at 06:55AM by micasa_es_miproblema
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TIL the third largest lake in Italy, Lake Fucino (as big as Liechtenstein), was drained completely and its bed converted into one of the most fertile agricultural plains in the country
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Submitted September 08, 2022 at 12:02PM by _Dnikeb
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TIL that if two pieces of similar metals touch in a vacuum like outer space, and if both pieces are perfectly flat and polished, they will indeed fuse to effectively make one new piece. Atoms in the metals share electrons and bond permanently. This is called cold welding.
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Submitted September 08, 2022 at 05:31PM by Barzobius
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TIL that the London Eye opened in 2000, and was originally intended to only be in operation for five years.
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Submitted September 08, 2022 at 04:27PM by baquea
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TIL, that in 2014 the U.S. for-profit company Pearson took control of the high school GED afterwards, there was a 90 percent drop-off in pass rates.
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Submitted September 08, 2022 at 08:26PM by ChicagoGuy53
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TIL that the snake Pareas iwasakii, which feeds only on snails, has the particularity of attacking only those whose shells are oriented to the right because of asymmetric jaws, favoring de facto those whose shells are oriented in the other direction.
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Submitted September 08, 2022 at 05:00PM by jenesuispashariselon
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TIL that there are 2 Aldi supermarket chains. They were created when the 2 founding brothers disagreed on whether to sell cigarettes. They divided Germany into 2 territories north and south. The Aldi chain known internationally is Aldi Sud (South).
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Submitted September 08, 2022 at 11:12PM by beelzebubby
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TIL Robert Oppenheimer's famous "I am become death" is actually a translated quote first attributed Lord Vishnu in the Hindu holy text, the Bhagavad Gita
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Submitted September 08, 2022 at 10:25PM by Aucklandwatch
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