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TIL that the Romans used urine as a cleaning agent

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1LwX TIL During Ancient Olympics prostitute could make as much as money in five days during the Olympics as she would in the rest of the year.
YpXpG TIL in 2000 a man looking for a barber chair at a garage sale purchased a two deteriorated boxes of items for $45. He later found the boxes contained 65 glass plate negatives from photographer Ansel Adams worth $200 million.
4XyEJ TIL the park that contains the Confederate "memorial" on Stone Mountain was opened exactly 100 years after Lincolns assassination.
bnBa TIL that around Christmas time in 1959, a man killed his wife with a hammer, beat his daughter, and then drank acid. The house has been uninhabited since although the Christmas tree still stands and wrapped presents still sit on a table.
ZpVYY TIL the oldest newspaper in North America is the Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph having been founded in 1764 as the Quebec Gazette. The newspaper still exists today