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TIL that in 2013, the village of Miami Shores forced a married couple to either stop growing vegetables or pay $50 per day, they justified they’re decision by saying vegetables are “ugly”.

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1ePD TIL a french mathematician the day before his duel published all his work because he didnt think he would survive. The next day he died at age 20 from a bullet to his gut.
XEXDD TIL that a rogue artist drew a penis on a rock in the animated children’s series “Maya the Bee"
gM0w4 TIL that the last known population of Woolly Mammoths lived on Wrangel Island in the Arctic Ocean until 4,000 years ago, well into the start of human civilization and concurrent with the construction of the Great Pyramid of ancient Egypt
D1Zvr TIL that there is a man called José Salvador Alvarenga who holds the Guinness World Record for longest time being lost at sea. He was lost for 438 days in a boat that was about 7 meters long and almost one meter wide. He survived by eating raw fish, turtles and birds and by drinking rain water.
pj9e TIL Chicago was raised over 4 ft with screw jacks in the 19th century in order to install the first sewer system in the US.