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TIL that Romans had central heating.

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X9WX TIL Some ducks have been observed floating through tidal rapids or fast-moving sections of rivers, and when they’ve reached the end, they hurry back to the beginning to ride over and over.
nWXwP TIL when the Surveyor 3 lander crashed on the Moon, it bounced and went 35 feet off the ground, before bouncing again up to 11 feet off the ground.
wLvlo TIL when Buzz Aldrin, second man on the moon, guest starred in The Simpsons, writers were concerned he would be offended by his line, "second comes after first," and offered an alternative- "first to take a soil sample." However, Aldrin preferred the original line, and it remained in the script.
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