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TIL THE ROMANS ONLY HAD CAPITAL LETTERS

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W749Y TIL about 'Balconing' in Ibiza, a phenomenon in which intoxicated party goers die or are injured by acting wildly on the balconies of the hotel establishments where they have stayed
xAA7 TIL that mathematician Paul Erdős published so many papers during his lifetime that there exists the Erdős number scale which measures the “collaborative distance” between Erdős and other mathematicians. Over 130,000 mathematicians have an Erdős number.
8agjZ TIL There is a museum dedicated to Snoring in Germany...
R5ly4 TIL standard greetings likely evolved from handshaking to hierarchical bowing to handshaking, against which a French society was formed to abolish 'le shake-hands' as a vulgar English innovation
ZOkD TIL Jupiter’s center of gravity between itself and the Sun is outside of the Sun’s surface. So technically, they are in a mutual orbit around each other, just around a point extremely close to the Sun.