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TIL of The Great Stink of London, where the smell of human shit in the River Thames was so bad that it halted parliament. 250 tons of limes were used to mask the odor.

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oBGjR TIL ATM PIN numbers were originally supposed to be 6 digits, but the creator reduced them to 4 as his wife said she wouldn't be able to remember that many
5VPdP TIL about the Western Interior Seaway, an ancient inland sea that divided North America during the Late Cretaceous period, around 100 to 66 million years ago. This vast body of water submerged present-day states such as Kansas, Nebraska, Montana, Wyoming, and Texas
o6rE TIL that gazelles can outrun a cheetah because they cool blood before it gets to the brain, while cheetahs lack this and risk overheating if they run too long.
epamg TIL At 22:43 on May 24, 2001, a large portion of the third floor of the Versailles Wedding Hall collapsed in Talpiot, Jerusalem, Israel. Twenty-three people fell to their deaths through two stories, while another 380 were injured to varying degrees.
RXo7 TIL Dustin Hoffman didn’t shower, sleep or change clothes for 4 days, to get into character for “Marathon Man”. When co-star Sir. Laurence Olivier heard about it, he said “My dear boy, why don’t you try ACTING? It’s so much easier”