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TIL The giant underground ancient city of Derinkuyu was dicsovered when resident of the area found a mysterious room behind a wall in his home.

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plZ8 TIL of the Voynich manuscript, a 246 page book that is filled with botanical illustrations along with written word that modern linguists have so far been incapable of deciphering. Attempts to identify the plants have likewise largely failed. Carbon dating places the book at around 1400 AD.
R5nXQ TIL NYC has a species of ant unique to it known as “Manhattants”
8ajX TIL up until 1981 Swiss children were sent to prisons for social rehabilitation, abused, raped, beaten and taken away from parents to work on farm at the ages of 4-6. They were called Contract kids
4XAo6 TIL Werner Forssmann, a physician, risked his own life to show that cardiac catheterization could work. He cut a hole in his arm and inserted a catheter into a vein, not knowing if the catheter might pierce a vein. He was later awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine.
orPR TIL the first Olympic flag went missing for 77 years after the 1920 games until a 1920 olympian revealed he’d had it in his suitcase the whole time