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TIL There are more museums in the U.S. than there are Starbucks and McDonalds—combined

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6EjWZ TIL that, although people consider prostitution to be the "oldest profession", human beings have been practicing dentistry since around 7000BCE. This makes the oldest surviving records of dentistry far older than that of prostitution.
QK8E TIL: The closest that we can get to the language of Jesus (Aramaic) is Syriac, the language of Syria.
rJ5y TIL that there is a factory in Japan which can run unsupervised for 30 days at a time. Robots build other robots at the rate of 50 per 24-hour shift. Such factories are called “lights out” factories because no human presence is needed. FANUC has been operating this autonomous factory since 2001.
N7vmQ TIL that although being a famous runaway wedding destination the Scottish town of Gretna Green has the dubious honour of holding the worst rail disaster in British History. With the precise death toll never established (but believed to be 226) those killed were mainly heading for Gallipoli.
JJdk TIL there are stars called “Magnetars” with magnetic fields strong enough to kill any life form at a distance of 1000km