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TIL that in 10AD the city of Rome likely had a population density upwards of 45,000 citizens/sq. km, greater than that of Manila today (41,515 c./km^2)

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1a9AD TIL at the beginning of the 19/20 English Premier League football (soccer) season, a fan jokingly placed a £10 bet on infamous Manchester United attacker Jesse Lingard not scoring all season. He lost out on £670 when Lingard scored with his final touch in the final minute of the season’s final game.
5VvgR TIL that the reason we know how much water is in a human body is because in WWII, Japan would take POWs, weigh them, then bake them alive until the corpse had no moisture left, then weigh the remains.
KoXE TIL in 1972 a mail worker in spain was given a sentence of 384,912 years in prison for failure to deliver the mail.
aE4M TIL that roman emperor Caligula once declared war on god of sea - Neptune, and ordered his soldiers to attack the ocean
VLpG TIL a lack of friends carries a higher risk of death than obesity and is the equivalent health risk of smoking 15 cigarettes a day.