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TIL not just coins are fished from the Trevi Fountain by the City of Rome. Workers have removed jewellery, dentures, religious medals and even umbilical cords.

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9wpxr TIL about Ettore Majorana, a brilliant young physicist who vanished without a trace in 1938. He was responsible for many discoveries in particle physics but never published them, leading others to get the credit.
jmdp TIL: Halle Berry was the first woman to collect her Worst Actress award in person at the Razzie Awards, saying “I want to thank Warner Bros. for casting me in this piece-of-shit, god-awful movie.”
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