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TIL that 140 years after an ancient stolen ring was found on a rural farm, a tablet was found at another site (“Among those who bear the name of Senicianus to none grant health until he bring back the ring to the temple of Nodens”). One of the scholars who translated it: Oxford prof. J R R Tolkien

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NXjW1 TIL about the Swiss Spaghetti Harvest prank, which was prank played by BBC on April Fool’s that made Britain believe that spaghetti grew on trees
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WknmY TIL of the "national bathtub", a mass execution during the French Revolution when thousands of suspected royalists were drowned in the river Loire. At first, the perpetrators carried the drownings at night to avoid suspicion, but the dozen of floating bodies in the following days gave them away.
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