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TIL that in 17th-century America some people who couldn't afford rugs would spread sand on their bare floors and drew designs in it with brooms.

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BrpxK TIL of the "Tree of Life" in Bahrain: an isolated 400-year-old mesquite tree in the middle of the desert sustaining itself from an unknown water source
P1NOg TIL Kuchikamikaze is a type of Sake made out of boiled rice that has been further chewed by chosen (beautiful and young virgin) women. The chewed out rice is then left for fermentation before distilling it as Kuchikamikaze (literally: mouth-chewed sake). Kampai!
OZ76 TIL if a Roman general saved an entire army or legion, he could be awarded a crown woven from grass on the battlefield. It was considered the highest military honor.
wya1 TIL according to Johnny Cash’s first wife, “Ring of Fire” was written not about love, but about “a certain private female body part.”
5VJAk TIL that to deter "train surfers", Indonesia installed concrete balls on chains above the train tracks after earlier trials of barbed wire, hosing down riders with red paint, and threatening them with dogs all failed