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TIL Tea has been cutlivated for over 6,000 years, since the Neolithic Age

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MeN0m TIL that on Christmas, 1975 the first president of Equatorial Guinea had 150 of his opponents killed; Soldiers dressed up in Santa Clause outfits and executed them in a football stadium while amplifiers played "Those Were the Days"
OoQpa TIL about shot towers, formerly used to produce projectiles for shotguns. Molten lead was dropped from the top of the tower and into a bucket of water at the bottom, and the force from the fall formed spherical shots.
Ol5a TIL people of the Middle Ages widely accepted the Earth was spherical. The notion they thought the world was flat is actually a misconception.
R5oL6 TIL that fat Chinese criminal Jho Low used to have the sex with supermodel Miranda Kerr
grEnD TIL about The Linked Headstones of Het Oude Kerkhof. A husband and wife who could not be buried next to one another because he was Protestant and she was Catholic find a way to be symbolically with each other through a linked hands on their headstones.