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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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R5RA7 TIL about Safe Haven Boxes. An anonymous drop off for newborns, preventing them from abandonment.
QJyQa TIL the first tree at Rockefeller Center was erected by construction workers in 1931 during the Depression-era. Workers pooled their money to buy the tree and decorated it with tin cans and garland made by their families.
PYowE TIL that a British man named Michael Faban broke into Buckingham's Palace, twice, in less then a month in 1982. He urinated in the Royal Corgis dog food, wandered the palace, made a maid look crazy, stole wine from Prince Charles room and woke up the Queen in her bedroom.
wAMP TIL- A German man posted online looking for a person who was willing to be slaughtered and eaten. A man volunteered, the two met and they dined on his severed penis before he was willingly killed and cannibalized for months.
VB1Zm TIL while most people only know of Solid, Liquid and Gas there are around 2 dozen other states of matter, including Plasma, Time Crystals, Degenerate Matter, Superfluids, Supersolids, and the Rydberg Polaron - a state where atoms exist within other atoms.