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TIL Guinness Brewery in Dublin is under a 9000 year lease.

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j6M8p TIL that archaeologists think that they’ve found the remains of Pliny the Elder, the author of the largest surviving Roman text, the encyclopedia called Naturalis Historia, who died trying to rescue people at Pompeii
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