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TIL that gladiators in Ancient Rome formed trade unions called "collegia" that would often pay for the funerals of fallen gladiators and take care of their families

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xVlk0 TIL you're more likely to OD from heroin on a relapse. People who use heroin long enough eventually build up a tolerance. What happens is people who get sober sometimes relapse but take a dose they were on at their worst. They unintentionally kill themselves by not realizing their tolerance dropped.
0wL1 TIL, Companies are mining landfills because they are incredible rich in minerals. More so than found in nature.
N7WXe TIL that the reason old pubs have "Ye Old" instead of "The Old" is because when the printing press was invented in Germany, they didn't have any letters for the old letter Thorn, which made a "th" sound. Thorn ultimately was replaced with Y because they looked similar until the Th start was popular.
nWp9 TIL When visiting the US, Russian President Boris Yeltsin got so drunk he left the White House, in his underwear, to go get pizza.
J1XMl TIL humans are pumping out so much groundwater that it's changed Earth's tilt 31.5-inches since 1993.