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TIL Bacon was invented in Ancient China

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ADme4 TIL the oldest street in Europe is in Athens, Greece, called Tripodon Street, and is 25 centuries old.
1PYX TIL human twins can have 2 different fathers, but the same mother. This is called bi-paternal twins.
o6R8 TIL After 20 months of war and a 13 month siege, the Numantians (old Spanish civilization) chose to burn their city and die free rather than live and be slaves to the Roman Empire.
l7GvK TIL that the Sun has a (very hot) "atmosphere" ~5x bigger than the rest of the Sun
rJEw TIL in 2009, an Israeli woman accidentally threw away her mom’s mattress with $1 million dollars stashed inside