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TIL Slaves in ancient Rome would often sleep on the same bedroom as their masters, or right outside. The lack of privacy was such that Romans would joke about slaves having their ears glued to the door and masturbating to their masters having sex

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Ypakv TIL Palau announced it would create the world's first shark sanctuary banning commercial shark fishing. The sanctuary protects about 230,000 square miles of ocean. Palau received the Future Policy Award from World Future Council, because "Palau is a global leader in protecting marine ecosystems.”
lN7V TIL that in the 1880s, a South African railroad employed a baboon as a railway signalman, paying him 20 cents a day and a half bottle of beer a week. He made no mistakes in 9 years.
vPVg8 TIL Glass can be spun into wool - soft like cotton, safe to the touch, and also bio-soluble (non-toxic in general). The fiberglass wool is usually used as house insulation and is resistant to mold. A 2'x4' batt of recycled fiberglass insulation is roughly equivalent to 15 recycled glass bottles.
wLMeo TIL Disney owns an enormous amount of land in Florida (Nearly 40 Square Miles). All of Disneyland could fit in the Magic Kingdom parking lot.
R5jX1 TIL In 1949, a Spanish-language version of Orson Welles' 1938 War of the Worlds radio adaptation aired in Ecuador. When listeners in the capital city of Quito learned it was fiction, the citizens rioted and burned down the radio station and news outlet, killing at least seven people.