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TIL that clown college was actually real and in some years they had a lower acceptance rate than Harvard.

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Y7kEr TIL One of the only pieces of Hitler's dream reconstruction of Berlin as Germania is an enormous concrete cylinder in the Tiergarten neighborhood. It's called the Schwerbelastungskörper which translates as "heavy load-bearing body." It was to test the load-bearing capability of the ground.
N1P8 TIL that cobalt is named after the Kobold, a type of fairy from German folklore
NZlb TIL If you removed all the empty space from the atoms that make up all the humans on the planet, then you could fit all 6 billion of us inside a single apple.
Wknxo TIL there’s a species of parasitic nematode that induces “fruit-mimicry” in tropical ants. Infected ants develop bright red abdomens, tend to be more sluggish, and walk with their abdomens in a conspicuous elevated position. This causes frugivorous birds to confuse them for berries.
8Zpb TIL of Black soup a standard meal for Spartan warriors made from boiled pigs’ legs, blood, salt & vinegar - after tasting it one commentator remarked “Now I know why the Spartans do not fear death”