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TIL people all over the world are cementing USB hard drives into walls for offline p2p sharing

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M7eZm TIL that Gandhara is a historical region in today's Pakistan that was a Buddhist crossroads. In ancient times that region was influenced by Persians and Greeks due to Alexander the Great, the Mauryas and Indo-Greek Kingdom and became an ancient center of Buddhism.
Yp0pd TIL the oldest known depiction of Jesus is graffiti of a man venerating a crucified man with the head of a donkey, accompanied by the caption “Alexamenos worships his god”
0wm5L TIL The Surgeon General of the United States is technically a Vice Admiral and wears a uniform similar to the one used by the US Navy
ADme4 TIL the oldest street in Europe is in Athens, Greece, called Tripodon Street, and is 25 centuries old.
xRGb TIL 80s hair band Winger can trace their massive mid-90s downfall in popularity to being mocked relentlessly on “Beavis and Butt-Head” and subsequent Mike Judge projects