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TIL Roman ruins excavations led to a cat sanctuary

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J1wb4 TIL about the Costco 'Death Star'. An item with an asterisk on the price tag means either that the item will not be restocked or the item will be discontinued.
l4B7 TIL A Welsh man has gone broke trying to defend himself again PETA, who are suing him for the copyright of a selfie taken by a Macaque in Indonesia. I just…I don’t have words.
b6MxZ TIL of Robinson Risner, who, during the Korean war, has used his own plane to intercept a friendly running out of fuel & hydraulic oil after taking damage and used the plane through a careful collission to push/lift his comrade's into safety
4O5a TIL that in 1973, a study asked doctors to pick out healthy people sent to a psych ward by the researches. Doctors suspected 84 people of being healthy. The researchers actually never sent the healthy people. This led to fundamental doubt of the validity of modern psychological evaluation.
RZd7 TIL According to Aristotle, a city of 100,000 is too numerous and “no longer a community”