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bKvp TIL Balls are different for men and women in pro tennis
e0ye6 TIL Marshall Mabey was a $1 a day NYC tunnel worker called "Sandmen". On Feb 19 he was working under the East River where the tunnel was pressurized to prevent cave ins. A crack in the ceiling vented Mabey up through the mud, the East River and 25 feet into the air. He lived and was uninjured.
PYNKn TIL about two faced "Janus" cats, named after Roman god who had two faces; one looking into the past, the other the future. They don't usually survive more than a day, but a 2 faced cat named Frank and Louie defied the odds and lived for 15yrs, even appearing in the Guinness World Records book 2006.
v1pOB TIL: The 1997 Albanian Civil War was precipitated by an economic crisis caused by the collapse of several enormous pyramid schemes which over 2/3 of the country's population had invested in.
kJ9V7 TIL In 1599, Beatrice Cenci and her siblings killed their wealthy father who was sexually and physically abusive. The people of Rome overwhelmingly supported Beatrice, but she and her siblings faced a brutal public execution. Her 12 year old brother was forced to watch and then sent to the galleys