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TIL there is a church in Rome that is lined with skeletons and has a plaque in 3 languages that reads “What you are now, we once were; what we are now, you shall be.”

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rKyM TIL the “12 days of Christmas” refer to the period STARTING on Christmas, not the days leading up to it.
JYJgB TIL that the vertical line in the Peace Sign represents the flag semaphore signal for the letter D, and the downward lines on either side represent the semaphore signal for the letter N. “N” and “D”, for nuclear disarmament, enclosed in a circle.
9w6m6 TIL that approximately 700 years before the Great Pyramids were built, there was a royal bloodline in Ireland, aka Atlantis
EEO0 TIL Alfred Nobel invented dynamites. And when he was mistakenly declared dead in 1888, newspapers published obituaries that stated that “the merchant of death is dead.” Ashamed to leave such a legacy, he left the money he made from dynamites to celebrate humanity; thus created the Nobel Prize.
WkxVN TIL that since projectors cannot project the color black, they rely on an optical illusion using the darkness of a room to give the illusion of the color black.