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TIL about Ancient brothels of Pompeii, so contempo

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698YZ TIL in March 1945 there was a "reverse D-Day", where Nazi soldiers isolated on the english Channel Islands briefly landed in liberated Granville, France, bringing back prisoners and supplies
kJ145 TIL Common Smoke detectors in Russia use weapons grade Plutonium-239 for the source.
kO7K1 TIL that Helen Keller's family forbade her from marrying her fiancé, Peter Fagan, an ex-newspaper reporter who was working as her secretary, because of her disabilities. And society of her time believed women with disabilities shouldn't experience romance of any kind.
EA4V TIL if a male donkey is crossed with a female horse they produce a mule, but if you cross a male horse with a female donkey the offspring is a hinny.
VMEem The atomic clocks that mark official time lose the equivalent of just 1 second every 200 million years. But metrologists are not satisfied.