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TIL there's a batch of beef stew in Bangkok thats been simply "topped up" for 40 years. Any bowl you order could have bits decades old

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b9170 TIL It is illegal for any person whose blood is less than one-half Samoan to own land in American Samoa.
e04NJ TIL that an ancient Babylonian tablet used the Pythagorean Theorem 1200 years before Pythagoreas was born
R7vgj TIL the Quartering Act of 1765 did not force colonists host British troops in their homes as commonly believed. Rather, it called for construction of barracks, and if no room, housing was extended to “inns, livery stables, ale houses, victualling houses, and the houses of sellers of wine.”
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QJ6ad TIL in 1933, in a publicity stunt for a Mae West movie named "It ain't no Sin", a Hollywood Press Agent bought 50 parrots and had taught them to squawk "It ain't no sin!" Then the movie changed titles and the parrots were subsequently released in South America, still repeating "it ain't no sin".