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TIL that the Han Dynasty used jade to plug all 9 holes of the deceased

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wOr6 TIL Uranium-238 has a half life of 4.468 billion years, or about 1/3 the estimated life of the universe
kkZd TIL W.T. Stead, a Victorian investigative journalist writing about child prostitution, bought an underage sex slave to prove how easily it could be done. He was sent to prison.
d8xmd TIL of the Lake Peigneur disaster in which an oil drill in a lake accidentally struck a salt mine, causing the entire lake to drain into the mine taking barges and an entire island with it.
LYGP TIL that Microsoft once sued a high school student named Mike Rowe who registered the domain MikeRoweSoft.com for his part-time web-design business. A settlement was finally reached that included sending the teenager an X-Box in exchange for the domain.
QNeOL TIL that in 1985 the Mayors of the modern cities Rome and Carthage signed a ceremonial peace treaty, a mere 2131 years after the end of the Third Punic War