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TIL Romans used urine as mouthwash, they even paid high dollar to have large quantities shipped in from Portugal because they didn’t think their own pee was exotic enough.

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5YAB TIL two thirds of teenagers in the UK are atheists
Y9OB TIL a strategy that terrorists use to avoid having their emails tracked is for one terrorist to compose an email, save it as a draft, and have another terrorist log into the same account to read and delete the draft.
OojPR TIL Chris Sacca invested in Uber
gr0ZL TIL there are multiple philosophical razors beyond Occam’s Razor, such as Hanlon’s Razor, which suggests “never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity,” and Hitchens’ Razor, which claims “what can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.”
wL558 TIL While filming Predator, Jesse Ventura was delighted to find out from the wardrobe department that his arms were 1” bigger than Arnold Schwarzenegger’s. He suggested to Arnold they measure arms, winner gets a bottle of champagne. Ventura lost, as Arnold set this up with the wardrobe department