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TIL Korea has had underfloor heating for thousands of years.

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Lok0 TIL that Arnold Schwarzenegger’s last name, Schwarzenegger, translates to “dark harrower of the fields” in German.
kJPJ1 TIL the two women of the Judgment of Solomon, the story from the Bible in which King Solomon orders a baby of disputed motherhood to be cut in half and shared between the two, were prostitutes.
PYn7w TIL: There's a dude who plays classical piano for elephants.
BrWVd TIL that Charlie Chaplin’s body was stolen from his Swiss grave in 1978, two months after he was buried. The bandits planned to hold the Chaplin family to ransom for its return, but the police tracked them down and ultimately recovered the body.
pnbp TIL that in 1937, a natural gas leak at the local school in New London, Texas caused a massive explosion that killed upward of 295 students and teachers, the deadliest school disaster in US history. Adolf Hitler even sent his condolences by telegram.