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TIL in 2020, archaeologists discovered a perfectly preserved food restaurant in Pompeii from 2,000-years-ago, complete with painted counters and traces of ancient meals like duck, snails, and goat stew still in their containers.

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A7ko TIL Inventor of James Bond and all around bad ass ex-spy, Ian Fleming, also wrote the famous children’s book “Chitty-Chitty Bang Bang”, later adapted to screen by fellow ex-bad ass spy, Roald Dahl. Both served in the same British intelligence agency.
wLx5M TIL that the hotel with the most expensive suite in Switzerland is named after the US President Woodrow Wilson
X0Y1E TIL that in the 1890s, the island of Nantucket, Massachusetts was overrun with prairie dogs
8e4oP TIL Egyptian women would put candle like cones on their heads. The slow melting of the cones due to bodily heat would have spread the fragrance.
nrmB TIL The Thing Video Game released in 2002 is considered the canonical sequel to the 1982 film and explains what happens to Childs and MacReady.