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TIL that artist James Turrell owns a two-mile-wide crater in the Arizona desert

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Pmge TIL that Rome’s population peaked at one million people during the reign of Augustus. When the empire fell, this number declined and Rome did not reach one million until the early 1930’s.
A7rx TIL that after the fall of the Roman Empire the technology to make concrete was lost for 1000 years.
XA76 TIL that because a large number of black males are unable to shave without severe irritation, Domino’s was found in violation of the 1991 Civil Rights Act by requiring all their employees to be cleanly-shaven.
YVlZ TIL:While in a fight, an Oklahoma man gave his stepfather an ‘atomic wedgie’, causing death by asphyxiation. When interviewed he said:” Man, I did a horrible thing when I gave him that wedgie.”
E1vk0 TIL in 1967 the Beatles paid for a full page advert in The Times calling for the legalisation of marijuana