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TIL Korea has had underfloor heating for thousands of years.

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W7RwL TIL in 1923, a jockey named Frank Hayes suffered a fatal heart attack and died mid-race. His body somehow remained on the horse and crossed the finish line in first place. He had never won a race before in his life.
gr0VX TIL: In the 1920s there was a mob hitman called Willie "Two-Knife" Altieri who was noted to have soft womanly hands, used his knives to clean his fingernails, and slept with them. He killed dozens of rival gangsters before disappearing in 1928 after Al Capone killed his boss.
p6A8 TIL If the Sun was a grain of sand, and the Earth a microscopic speck one inch away, then Jupiter would lie 5.2 inches away, the nearest star would be about 4.3 miles away, and the diameter of the Milky Way Galaxy itself would be about 100,000 miles.
8kP4 TIL that our eyes are in almost constant motion, but our brain masks this effect so we don’t get disoriented all the time.
4Py5 TIL that C-3PO and R2-D2 had their own 1985 single season 13 episode spin-off TV series.