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TIL there is a restaurant in Germany that has been operating since 1135.

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dvP9 Today I learned that ‘sine’ is derived from an Arabic word for 'bosom’, thus making it the oldest mathematical boobies joke.
ADXOw TIL there is a town of 1,500 people in Australia built entirely underground.
M7oka TIL of The Novgorod Codex. It is the oldest book of Kievan Rus', unearthed on 13 July 2000 in Novgorod. It is a palimpsest consisting of three bound wooden tablets containing four pages filled with wax, on which its former owner wrote down dozens, probably hundreds of texts.
gmmW TIL that during the “Bailout” in 2008/09, the Federal Reserve lent out $16 TRILLION dollars directly to banks.
Bg8Pb TIL there's a company that sells mushroom,herb, and gardening kits, that will donate a free kit to a classroom of your choice, all you have to do is post a picture of your grow.