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TIL the Roman poet Virgil kept a pet housefly, and upon it’s death, he held an extremely extravagant funeral for it. He even built it a mausoleum.

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GXWj TIL that many quantum mechanical properties can be replicated on the macro scale using silicon droplets bouncing on a sheet of vibrating silicon. These droplets act like quantum mechanical particles and can even replicate Young’s double slit experiment on a human scale.
PYdkw TIL the severe pain from platypus venom can be felt for years, sometimes decades, and does not always respond to painkillers such as morphine.
Eg4Lp TIL that the French military has a long tradition of organising brothels for its soldiers, both at bases and near front lines, including in the Algerian and Vietnamese wars. The last one at a base closed in 2003
QAe6 TIL: Andrew Jackson killed a man in a duel for insulting his wife. Jackson let the opponent shoot first, who hit Jackson in the chest. Then Jackson took his sweet time to aim. People called it too cold-blooded &, as a result, Jackson became a social outcast.
M69m TIL in a small town in County Cork, Ireland, a monument stands in appreciation to the American Choctaw Indian Tribe. Although impoverished, shortly after being forced to walk the Trail of Tears, the tribe somehow gathered $170 to send to Ireland for famine relief in 1847.