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TIL the Sun sings. The Sun constantly emits sound waves, but space’s vacuum makes them inaudible to us.

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Zpx5B TIL The place where Julius Caesar was murdered has been a fenced in sanctuary for feral cats until now. House of Bulgari has restored it and made it a place the public can tour.
5axD TIL Chinese vampires are depicted in movies as hopping around because in the Qing Dynasty people used to pay ‘corpse carriers’ to return dead migrants to their hometowns. They’d be transported at night lined up on bamboo poles, which would flex as the carriers ran, making the bodies appear to bounce
grVJD TIL that an increase in the profitability of growing lemons after they were found to prevent scurvy led to the creation of the Sicilian mafia in the 1870s.
xVgQ1 TIL: 14 cargo ships got stranded in the Suez Canal during the Six-Day-War in 1967 and weren’t able to leave until 8 years later.
LBKr TIL that in ancient Rome the punishment for parricide, killing one’s own parent(s), was to be whipped repeatedly and then sewn up in a leather sack along with a serpent, a dog, a rooster and a monkey. The sack was then thrown into a river.