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TIL: Between 800 and 1349 AD, the Colosseum was converted into a residential apartment building

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vg8j TIL a 16 year old named Max Wade managed to pull off a heist of movie proportions when he rappel’d into a Ferrari shop and stole Guy Fieri’s Lamborghini, and the janitor suspected of helping was never found.
OG59e TIL that in the 17th century, tulip bulb futures became incredibly valuable in the Netherlands. At the peak of the craze, a single tulip bulb sold for the value of a nice house.
gMYm9 TIL in all history people have only taken ~200k tons of gold out of the earth. To compare, when Edmund Fitzgerald went down with 26k tons of iron, it was one of dozens such freighters that's moves that much iron every single day the Great Lakes shipping lanes are open, a fraction of daily worldwide
E1gGW TIL the most powerful commercial radio station ever was WLW (700KHz AM), which during certain times in the 1930s broadcasted 500kW radiated power. At night, it covered half the globe. Neighbors within the vicinity of the transmitter heard the audio in their pots, pans, and mattresses.
VBgr8 TIL A fecal transplant is among the most effective treatments for C.Difficile and IBD. Finding donors is much easier than finding recipients