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TIL that before there was the Silk Road, the Maritime Jade Road was established in Asia in the second century BCE starting from Taiwan travelling southwest to the Philippines and reaching all the way to Arabia

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kbkW TIL there is a giant 2,400 year old mushroom in Oregon, its roots cover 2,200 acres of land making it the largest living organism in the world
neRQr TIL that when Berlins infamous Spandau Prisons last inmate, Nazi Rudolf Hess, died, the entire site was demolished, ground into powder and dumped in the sea to stop it becoming a Nazi shrine. A supermarket for British Troops was put in it's place, who nicknamed it 'Hessco's' (after Tesco's)
GLbJ TIL that in 1993, an Army husband cut off his wifes lovers head, dropped in her lap while she was in the hospital pregnant and said “"Look Diane, Glover’s here. He’ll sleep with you every night, only you won’t sleep at night.”
d8gx9 TIL that traditional haiku poems must contain both a kireji ("cutting word") and a kigo (seasonal reference)
Y760v TIL that the theft of milk-crates accounts for approximately $80 million in annual losses. Despite 95% of the theft stemming from organized crime, the protecting legislation inadvertently gave law-enforcement the power to criminalize the possession of even a single crate by one individual.