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TIL there is a strip club in Portland that serves only vegan food and only allows its strippers to strip in non-animal-based clothing

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OM57 TIL in 1836 a group of young boys discovered a group of 17 miniature coffins buried in a cave outside Edinburgh, Scotland. The coffins contain tiny dolls, each individually dressed, and the coffins all differ in their decoration. No one knows who buried them, when, or why.
mxbYO TIL that after the Coalition Wars, which Napoleon lost for France, a summit was held in Vienna to provide a peace plan for Europe - the so-called Congress of Vienna. It lasted more than 8 months.
gr8ay TIL: An Indian mathematician identified Mt. Everest as the world's highest peak in 1852. Using trigonometry, he calculated its height to be 29,000 ft. In 2020, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Nepal determined the actual height to be 29,031 ft - a difference of 31 ft from the 1852 estimate.
WkK58 TIL: Charles Darwin terraformed Ascension Island in the Atlantic by bringing hundreds of non-native plants from all over the world. The mix of flora is not found anywhere else together naturally.
oa7r TIL that Freud actually named the id, the ego and the superego the It, the I and the Over-I, which were more or less self-explanatory, but his translator latinized them, making them less accessible.