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TIL spaghetti never breaks into 2, but more pieces

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85jb TIL that Leonardo da Vinci was very strong, and could bend a horseshoe as if it was made of lead
EyX0 TIL a homeless man lived for three years in the spaces between the girders of a drawbridge, complete with working TV and Playstation, holding on to the beams every time the bridge raised and lowered to keep from falling.
Wkb54 TIL that the city of Pittsburgh, PA, dumps raw, untreated sewag into the Ohio river.
gva4 TIL the last 24 remaining members of a species of giant stick insect were found under a bush on a remote spike of rock off australia
WJOo TIL in pre-modern Europe, Outlaw or Outlawry, was one of the harshest punishments available and put the criminal outside of any legal protections, subject to persecution, murder etc. by anybody. It was considered a death sentence but not carried out by the state.