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TIL the value of Pi could be approximated with stunning accuracy by dropping a bunch of matches on a piece of paper.

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W7QBB TIL in traditional Christian theology there are four sins "which cry out to heaven for vengeance" : murder, sodomy, oppression of the poor, and defrauding a worker of his wages.
e0BJD TIL when Queen Victoria first moved to Buckingham palace, it was dirty and cold as staff were lax and lazy and chimneys smoked so much that fires were dampened down.
ANl6n TIL The Californian seagull is landlocked Utah's state bird
WXgA TIL that Hasidic Jews in New York took over a school board, gutting the education system because they thought it was unfair to pay taxes for a service they don’t use.
RKoa TIL there’s a village in India that exclusively produces bouncers and bodyguards for New Delhi nightclubs