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TIL Ancient Rome was eight times more densely populated than modern New York.

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xK9B TIL That in the mid 80’s the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus surgically attached horns to goats skulls and billed them as “living unicorns”. When they came under fire from animal rights activist, their argument was “They magically appeared.”
yVvP8 TIL of HAVOC: High Altitude Venus Operational Concept - which would include artificial floating islands on Venus at an altitude that provides better living conditions than the surface of Mars or Titan
lDv7 TIL scientists announced they are “50% there” to creating a “chickenosaurus” after they successfully modified the beak of a chicken embryo to resemble the snout of its dinosaur ancestors in 2015
XEPwE TIL that if Italy was an American state, it would be the 6th largest, after New Mexico.
16rPD TIL Angry French tailors burned the first successful sewing machines setting back their use in garment manufacture by several decades