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TIL It costs $6 to visit Karl Marx' grave.

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Br0Vx TIL Indiana was the last state to allow Coors to be sold owing to exclusive distributorship rules.
oBdjA TIL that the middle out compresion algorithm in the HBO series Silicon Valley is a real thing and is used by Dropbox's Lepton compression algorithm.
Y7a4W Today I learned that Druids gathered Mistletoe using Golden Sickles
DQoYV TIL about the ancient Mesopotamian practice of using a substitute king to protect the real king from evil omens. The real king would go into hiding, and rites were performed to transfer the danger onto the substitute. At the end of the ritual, the substitute is put to death.