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TIL that the site for modern-day Vatican City was originally a circus for Roman Emperor Nero called Circus of Nero.

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x6lr7 TIL Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers wrote the bass lines for Bust a Move and You Oughta Know and has written songs with Jewel, Warren Zevon, Jane's Addiction, Slash, Alice Cooper, Mars Volta, Patti Smith and Tom Waits
e0Nmn TIL: Kokomo isn’t a real place.
0d8eL TIL that since its discovery Pluto has not made a full orbit around the sun, and still has 150 years until it does
neReo TIL Samuel Clemens (AKA Mark Twain), who was born 186 years ago on November 30th, was born two months early and was not expected to live. He ended up being one of three children in his family who survived to adulthood while four other of his siblings passed away.
xV9PD TIL In 1995 a man from australia committed suicide by shooting himself in the chest with a shotgun. He then shot himself in the head with a pistol. When both failed he used the shotgun and shot his throat and jaw. Finally he walked two hundred metres & shot himself in the heart