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TIL about ancient takeout in the city of Pompeii.

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YpY8A TIL about contronyms, single words that have contradictory meanings like dust (to add particles, or to remove particles)
Zpw6Q TIL the Portuguese Man o’ War is a colonial organism, where many organisms form one unit. They produce both sexually and asexually. First, the male and female polyps release gametes into the water which, when fertilized, result in larvae that then begin to reproduce asexually to create a new colony.
ZpYYo TIL the little “pocket” in women’s underwear is called a “Panty Gusset”.
1gy8 TIL that in addition to saving a passenger train of people at the expense of his own life, earlier in his career Casey Jones saved the life of a young girl by standing on the moving train’s cow-catcher and picking the girl up off the track
78b6Z TIL of the Hitler Teapot - a teapot that sold out at JC Penny stores once people noticed it resembled Hitler