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TIL Americas first public crucifixion will take place tomorrow

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PY7lZ TIL The use of hops was unknown to Ancient Egyptians as was the process of carbonation. To a modern-day beer drinker, an Egyptian brew would taste more like a fruit drink
d8aZd TIL A hot spring hotel in Japan is the world's oldest and has been running continuously for roughly 1300 years by the 52 generations of the same family.
7Q0L TIL in 2012 in an event dubbed the ‘Thrilla on the Hilla’ two Canadian politicans boxed eachother for charity.
KO9W6 TIL That Salvadore Dali was known to avoid paying tabs at restaurants by drawing on the checks he wrote. His theory was the restaurant would never want to cash such a valuable piece of art
lo4EV TIL In March of 2005 this guy bought 100% of shares (1.1M shares) in a traded company to prove the corruption. The next two days that same stock traded 50 million times and dropping the price 99% in two hours. All this with LITERALLY NO SHARES AVAILABLE TO BORROW OR SHORT.