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TIL there is a child in England named: Rickrolled

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QDBE TIL that “The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. […] They contradict their parents […] and tyrannise their teachers.” is a quote from “The Clouds”, a Greek comedic play from 423 BC.
A1ba TIL Scientists have farted onto Petri dishes to see if farting can contaminate an operating theater.
9YlmM TIL it's estimated that 16% of the world's gold and 22% of the world's silver is contained in Japan's electronics alone- so much that Japan is asking its citizens to donate old electronics to make the Olympic medals.
wowYP TIL that Machu Picchu is earthquake resistant. The Incans created an engineering technique called ‘ashlar masonry’, where rocks are cut to fit perfectly together without mortar. This allowed the stones to move in its place during an earthquake, before settling back in their original positions
AWQw TIL That Batwoman was introduced in 1956 in order to quell suspicions that Batman was homosexual. Now, Batwoman is actually portrayed as lesbian.