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TIL That Guy Fieri's Middle Name is Ramsay

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P1daJ TIL that J.S. Bach was only 22 years old when he finished writing Toccata & Fugue in D minor, having been just 18 when he started it.
W7eOd TIL Medieval people and ancient Romans washed their clothes in pee.
epxxn Today I learned Jimmy Carter has been in hospice for over 186 days.
gKV9 TIL Finland is a future-obsessed nation. It was the first country in the world to offer a master’s degree in futures studies, has a special parliamentary committee for the future, and its government is required by law to produce an official review of the future every four years.
nWmyW TIL Roman toilets were life-threatening. Creatures would come up and bite, wiping was done with a shared stick with a sponge (never cleaned) and there was so much methane that the toilets exploded. So many people died, they tried to use magic spells to keep demons away. (NSFW)?