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TIL that Ancient Rome was mostly built without urban planning

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Ox74 TIL Marlon Brando was in an acting class that was told to act like chickens and that a nuclear bomb was about to fall on them. Most of the class clucked wildly, but Brando sat calmly and pretended to lay an egg. When Stella Adler asked why he said, “I’m a chicken, What do I know about bombs?”
dGOK TIL that there are actually eight words in the English language that contain all five vowels in order (a-e-i-o-u): abstemious, facetious, arsenious, abstentious, acheilous, anemious, caesious, and annelidous.
XpAk TIL that pozole was originally made with human meat, and was changed to pork because it has the closest taste to human.
m15bp TIL sine and cosine waves are actually a spiral in 3D. The 2D version is just a side view of the spiral.
5YDxp TIL that ridiculously long nails was the hot trend in Vietnam during the 1920’s.