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TIL Rats laugh when you tickle them!

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e0nv6 TIL Mussolini drastically altered the area surrounding the Colosseum, leveling hills and removing ruins, including the base of the Colossus of Nero.
Lk7Am TIL the HMAS Melbourne was initially sold for scrapping, however China bought the rights to scrap and instead fully documented and analyzed the designs for their own carrier program. Decommissioned in 1982, reports suggest it was not scrapped until 2002, having been used for training in those years.
PYDJg TIL that each US banknote weighs 1 gram, no matter the denomination, so because there are 454 grams in a pound, there are always 454 bills in every pound of currency.
neQV7 TIL The world's first working programmable, fully automatic digital computer in 1941 weighed 2,200 lbs, used 4 kilowatts of power, had 1,408 bytes of memory, and took 3 seconds to do a multiplication operation.
9yj7 TIL Costco regularly relocates necessities like toiletries and light bulbs so the customer has to search for them. This forces shoppers to explore new areas of the store.