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TIL Robert plant was only 22 when Led Zeppelin recorded the song Stairway to Heaven

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k6JE TIL archaeologists excavating a Roman city found remains of close to 100 infants who were smothered and cast into a sewer that ran beneath a brothel. It believed infanticide was a widely used method of limiting family size in ancient Rome
j68On TIL than in 2019 a cheese from the United States won Best Cheese in the World from the World Cheese Awards.
d8EJ9 TIL that several of the peoples of the eastern New Guinea Highlands have developed an "avoidance language", used when collecting pandanus nuts in order to not use words that are thought of as being "unhealthy" for the plants.
e0Xrg TIL that the fastest wind speed ever measured from a tornadic storm is 301 MPH, which was set in 1999 during the Bridge Creek-Moore EF5 Tornado.
R5ZL8 TIL that British houses are built 21 feet apart because of an Edwardian-era regulation meant to find the right distance to prevent women's nipples from being seen through their dresses