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TIL a New York man named Newman was arrested for fraud after pretending to be an architect in a bust referred to by the state as “Operation Vandelay Industries”

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DQ8vj TIL that the United Arab Emirates were original the Trucial states under British control but two of the states remained independent from the UAE, Bahrain and Qatar, while one, Ras al-Khaimah, joined up later.
E1WGW TIL that for 5000 years, Europeans built huge magnificent cities, and lived in them, just to burn them to the ground every 75 years. People in current-day Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine and the area, intentionally set their settlements on fire between 7000-2000 BC, for reasons still being researched.
VBYkm TIL of mad honey, the hallucinogenic product of certain asian honeybees that eat rhododendrons,
Z88lv TIL that Over the course of two weeks, a single human male produces enough sperm to impregnate every fertile woman on the Earth.
4X1eX TIL At a radiology conference in 1974, Lee Rogers, a physician who had mistakenly swallowed a soda can tab during a basketball game, addressed the hazard to the medical community, which lead to a redesign of a non-removable tab that reduced untold amounts of litter and injury to humans and wildlife.