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TIL the name of the Australian outback town Coober Pedy, where almost everyone lives underground, translates to whitefellas hole in Aboriginal

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Lk050 TIL of co-emperors Caracalla & Geta,who hated each other.At a meeting set by their mother, Caracalla had Geta killed.Caracalla then killed any who knew Greta.Over 20,000 were killed.It became a capital crime to even say "Greta".Years later he sacked a city because they held a satire of the murder.
R7mxj TIL AI Listened to People's Voices. Then It Generated Their Faces.
4Pa TIL an 8yo boy wrote to Lego asking how he could get a job with them, then followed their instructions and now, aged 23, is a Lego Designer.
ANJan TIL Horse semen is the most expensive liquid
0d0Jp TIL that before his involvment in the Nazi Party, Adolf Hitler was extremely lazy, never had a real job, dropped out of school and was very poor for many years. At one point he was sleeping on park benches and begging for money and later lived at a home for poor men for a few years.