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TIL that Pittsburgh is the only city in the USA where all of the sports teams share the same colors (Black and Gold)

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ANmKa TIL that in the 1790s, France had a network of signalling towers that could send messages by writing symbols using giant mechanical arms on towers. They could send complex messages across the entire country in ~1 hour. These were precursors to electric telegraphs.
6E9xY TIL of a form of medieval torture, where the victims feet were covered in salt water and then a goat would start licking them. Sometimes the laughter and stress from the intense tickling resulted in a heart attack or a brain hemorrhage.
yE1p TIL that Liam Neeson agreed to say any line that the writers of the Family Guy episode “Fighting Irish” wrote except one: “I’ve been a world-famous tough guy since 56”, which he altered on the basis that he was 55 when he filmed Taken.
MMnm TIL that the world’s energy needs could be met by setting aside three percent of the world’s oceans for seaweed farming.
Aea TIL; William Randolph Hearst ran a campaign to destroy the hemp industry because hemp became a very cheap substitute for paper pulp and timber.