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TIL that a monarchy can be elective
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TIL: There is a fully intact Roman wine bottle sitting in Germany from the year 350 AD. It's fully drinkable but the Romans added a significant amount of thick olive oil as a preservative.
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TIL Greenland has fossilized plants buried under 1.4 kilometers of ice. This implies the ice melted and reformed in the last million years.
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TIL that in 2012 when Taylor Swift held a public vote for where she would visit and preform a free concert 4chan users voted for a childrens school for the deaf and won the vote.
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TIL about the Rambutan, a hairy fruit, appropriately called the hair fruit in Malay and the messy hair fruit in Vietnamese.
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TIL that gold miners in Peru are clear-cutting forests, washing down the soil with high pressure hoses and putting mercury on the slurry to mine gold, ruining everything they touch.