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TIL that Ancient Rome was mostly built without urban planning

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xZKb TIL that in 1731, a woman who was known for trafficking young girls was put in a pillory at St James Street and Park Place, London and pelted with rocks by bystanders for two days until she died. [Crosspost from /r/VictorianEra]
BrReK TIL that a British man named Robert Fidler asked for permission to build a mini castle on his farm. Permission was not granted, so he built it secretly and hid it behind haystacks for 4 years, believing that if nobody complained for 4 years he could keep it
R7bv1 In 1937, the U.S. Army Air Corps began research flights in a modified Lockheed Electra; the XC-35 was the first airplane built with a pressurized cabin.
kmjd TIL: A German town was unknowingly built in a meteorite impact crater, and it’s stone buildings contain thousands of tons of micro-diamonds.
VBLj8 TIL that both Quantum tunneling and Quantum Entanglement are both involved in the process of a tadpole turning into a frog.