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TIL that in central Italy, there is a fountain that flows red wine 24-hours a day. It is free to everyone, except for drunkards and louts .

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ADaPa TIL of Dolly Oesterreich, a Milwaukee woman who kept a voluntary sex slave in the attics of her two homes, her husband and 2 lovers none the wiser, for about 10 years. Despite the murder of her husband and her attempts to cover it up she was never convicted and eventually died at the age of 80.
7r48L TIL that house dogs mimic us as a result of their pack animals origin, and that dogs with injured owners will sometimes limp
epE8k TIL that Henry Patch, briefly the oldest man in Europe and the last surviving soldier known to have fought in WW1, died aged 111 years, 1 month, 1 week, and 1 day
MeLQB TIL of Semantic Satiation: the psychological phenomenon in which repetition causes a word or phrase to lose meaning for the listener, who then perceives the speech as repeated meaningless sounds.
wLyl7 TIL that The University of al-Qarawiyyin is the oldest existing, continually operating higher educational institution in the world, operating for 1,161 years. It was founded in 859 in Fes, Morocco.