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TIL Korea has had underfloor heating for thousands of years.

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1a6Mr TIL Anderson Cooper once saved a Haitian boy from looters after the 2010 earthquake
AN9Pa TIL: The Gundam series idea of dropping space colonies on Earth was based on a real concept developed in the 1960s known as Ivan's hammer at the annual American Astronautical Society. Which described the use of asteroids as WMDs. Decades later, Carl Sagan and the RAND Corp discussed the feasibility.
69gjY TIL shooting a thin stream of liquid from under your tongue is called gleeking and there's even a world record for most gleeking within 10 minutes
MjRa TIL One of the first Egyptian creation myths involved Atum, the first being, reproducing by masturbating & swallowing his own cum. He then spit out the god of moisture & mist, literally naming it “spit” (Tefnut). Then he sneezed out the god of air & emptiness, literally naming it “sneeze” (Shu).
Lk6e0 TIL: In 1969 24 journalists came together to write the worst novel they could come up with to make fun of US’s vulgar and declining literary culture. That hoax book became a bestseller the same year.