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TIL there is a version of the Bible translated into Hawaiian Pidgin called ‘Da Jesus Book’

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grMv4 TIL there was a Pee Tax in Ancient Rome. Vespasian imposed a urine tax on the sale and distribution of urine from Rome's public urinals (which apparently had resale value).
QJpmk TIL Soundgarden's album Superunknown (1994) employed 7 different guitar tuning for individual songs including very unorthodox ones.
DjMP TIL that Central Park in New York was once home to a thriving free black community called Seneca Village.
kOXJW TIL Richard Littler has been writing a blog of the history of Scarfolk, a fictional, supernatural-tinged town perpetually stuck in the 1970s. Littler presents the town's story through materials from the council's "archive": posters, pamphlets and packaging that reveal aspects of everyday life.
wX88 TIL that the rights to Peter Pan are owned by Great Ormond Street Hospital and that it is one of very few novels to have had its copyright extended due to the amount of funding it provides the hospital