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TIL about Cockaigne, an imaginary place of "extreme luxury" in medieval myth where physical comforts and pleasures are always immediately at hand.

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a8jG9 TIL that lead(II) acetate has a sweet taste, and was historically used as an artificial sweetener. The Romans would boil unfiltered grape juice in lead pots to make a syrup used to sweeten wine and fruit. Like many other lead compounds, it is neurotoxic.
Z8Rep TIL Roald Dahl wrote a Bond film.
e04QE TIL the word ‘space’ was first used to reference the area beyond Earth's sky in John Milton's Paradise Lost in 1667.
Br5Wr TIL 1$ worth of gold invested in 1801 would be worth 54$ by 2016, but 1$ invested in the US stock market in 1801 would be worth $16.24 million by 2016.
EgPjw TIL the first dog poop cleanup laws in the US started in NY in 1978