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TIL that there is an underground town in the Australian outback called Coober Pedy. Half of its population live below ground to escape the area's hellish temperatures.

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0w1Dp TIL that Berea College is a 4 year college in Kentucky. It provides free education to all students admitted and was the first southern college to be coeducational and racially integrated
6ERnw TIL that since 1956, Paris is exclusively and reciprocally twinned only with Rome. "Only Paris is worthy of Rome; only Rome is worthy of Paris"
Me6wW TIL 17th-century Europeans knew teen pregnancy was dangerous for women; Shakespeare may have written Juliet’s age as 13 wanting to marry Romeo in secret to shock Elizabethan audiences
OomO7 TIL Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) was a dirt poor Scottish kid who immigrated to the U.S. where he became the richest man in the world. He gave away $350 million, nearly 90 percent of the fortune he accumulated through the railroad and steel industries.
b99E0 TIL that the Roman Empire didn't fall until the year 1453. Whilst Rome fell in 476, the Eastern Roman Empire- also known as Byzantium- survived for another thousand years. This means that Joan of Arc, the Spanish Inquisition, and Glasgow University all existed at the same time as the Roman Empire.