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TIL In the 1800's, sewer-hunters scavenged the London sewers for bones, fragments of rope, miscellaneous bits of metal, silver cutlery, and coins. Paradoxically, the men were strong, robust and even florid in complexion, often surprisingly long-lived–thanks to their strengthened immune systems

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e0Ky6 Yes. Shaved legs worth about 70 sec over 40km.
V8JD TIL that after the Greek War of Independence began, the Ottoman reaction was so virulent that the Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church was publicly hanged in Constantinople, and a imam from the city of Smyrna was executed after he refused to issue a fatwa justifying the murder of Christians.
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yVdaM TIL about the tallest fountain in the world, located in Saudi Arabia, 'launched' in 1985
np9r TIL: Some police Unions have negotiated the right to work half-drunk without fear of disciplinary action.