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TIL the first historical document containing the @ symbol was a wheat shipment from Castile to Aragon in the year 1448.

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LVom TIL that a Buddhist master named his penis “Thunderbolt of Flaming Wisdom,” told women that they could achieve Nirvana through sex with him, and had them pay him in beer for sex rendered.
e0QK5 TIL that in 1940, nearly 19 million people lived in the USA colonies, the great bulk of them in the Philippines. That meant slightly more than one in eight of the people in the USA lived outside of the states. For perspective, only about one in 12 of the people in the USA was African American
5VAl9 TIL that there have been several scientific papers published associating the winning chances in football or soccer matches with playing a short pass based possession game, now known popualrly as tiki taka
arEo TIL a man survived 13 months on a deserted island by drinking turtle’s blood and rain water.
QJRYd TIL the first official quarantine was in Dubrovnik, Croatia in 1377 against the bubonic plague. Anyone entering the city had to first isolate for 40 (in latin, quaranta) days on a nearby island.