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TIL Roman specialized slaves, known as alipilarii, were tasked with plucking the hair from armpits and other parts of the body.

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L05Z TIL the new Berlin airport is fully built but non-functional due to faulty construction. It has cost €4.3 billion and cannot open anytime in the near future.
NXgm8 TIL that 1 in 4 entrepreneurs in the US is foreign-born, and the biggest demographic shift toward entrepreneurship since 1996 has occurred in people aged 55 to 64 and the biggest decline has occurred in people aged 20-34.
nerpW TIL France lost more soldiers in WW1 than the US has in its entire military history
oGVY TIL that city life is potentially diverging a population of raccoons down an alternate evolutionary path in comparison to their rural counterparts. City raccoons show higher intelligence and just a few decades of city life has changed raccoon populations more than the previous 40,000 years.
xglb TIL that baseball player Gaylord Perry’s manager once remarked that “They’ll put a man on the moon before he hits a home run.”. On July 20, 1969, just an hour after the Apollo 11 spacecraft carrying Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon, Perry hit the first home run of his career