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TIL of the Antikythera Mechanism, a device discovered from a shipwreck in Greece. It has a calendar, star charts, planetary alignments, moon phases, etc. It is estimated to be created in first or second century BC.

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N70eN TIL that Led Zeppelin twice attempted to put Neil Armstrong on album covers and failed by mistakenly using Frank Borman and Buzz Aldrin instead of Neil Armstrong photo on Led Zeppelin II & Physical Graffiti respectively.
K04w TIL it is illegal to homeschool in Germany, and that homeschooled children may be removed from their parents even if these children are found to be well taken care of.
e9aL TIL some architects refuse to design spaces deemed inhumane by their nature, including solitary confinement cells and execution chambers. The counterargument: if architects don’t do it, such spaces will still be built, just by non-professionals who may make them even worse.
ANpLB TIL there are people who can smell ants
mxwQo TIL The oldest surviving terrestrial globe is also one of the last to not include the Americas as it was completed in 1492, about a year before Columbus returned from his voyage to the Americas.