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TIL a small temple in India had secret vaults full of precious gold, diamonds, rubies worth $40 billion

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wZw1 TIL that the bottles of alcohol in cartoons marked with ‘XXX’ isn’t just meaningless. 'XXX’ was used to be an indicator of the strength of beer by a brewery. One 'X’ was weakest, and three 'XXX’ the strongest.
rRKv4 TIL Sharks have been around on Earth longer than Trees
6ml7 TIL that there is a hardcore full contact style of Karate called “Kyokushin” which means “The Ultimate Truth” in Japanese where students fight barehanded and have to fight 100 people in a row in order to get a black belt.
0ErM TIL that, under the first written law code of ancient Greece, anyone proposing a new law had to appear in front of the Citizen’s Council with a rope around their neck. If the Council voted against the law, the person was strangled.
WkBQ4 TIL of the Andersen Air Force Base B-2 accident, resulting in a $1.4b USD loss for a single aircraft.