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TIL Korea has had underfloor heating for thousands of years.

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mp6E TIL: When Edward I of England was coming back from the ninth crusade in 1272, he learned that his father had died and that he had been made king of England. Instead of returning home to be crowned, Edward went on a leisurely trip in Italy and France for almost two years and only came back in 1274.
J1AB8 TIL Roald Dahl attributed his creativity to a head injury he sustained after crashing his plane during WW2.
OGY7a TIL that food assistance programs were made to get rid of excess cheese that the government bought from farmers
grmYA TIL It's possible to bring back some extinct animals. In 2016, some ecologists from UCSB advised which species should be revived to best impact Earth's ecosystems. The species that made the cut: Christmas Island pipistrelle bat, Reunion giant tortoise & Lesser stick-nest rat.
GWa7 TIL Thomas Jefferson hated banks and believed they were more dangerous than armies.