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TIL Neolithic houses had doorways on the roof.

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LQN1V TIL that French uses « » as quotation marks instead of " "
loReA TIL that Shakespeare (hey, Happy Birthday, Will!)earned most of his income from his parternship stake in the Globe Theater, not through his writings or plays.
x6jyg TIL about the Paria Pipeline disaster. Because of the delta-p, 5 maintenance workers got sucked 60ft underwater, and hundreds of feet out to sea in a pipeline. One man managed to survive due to ‘miraculous’ events.
BgdMy TIL that after an accident on June 13, 1922, Charles Osborne began to hiccup nonstop. The condition persisted for more than six decades, only ending in 1990, a full 68 years after it began.
4k6ZX TIL in the United States two states share the coolest record high temperature for their respective state of 100F. Alaska and Hawaii are the two states.