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TIL that cities in Greece struggle to build subway systems because they keep digging up ancient ruins.

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6ExZQ TIL that crowd noises for the movie 'Spartacus' [1960] were recorded at Spartan Stadium of MSU. Prior to a football game between MSU and Notre Dame, 76,000 spectators were instructed by actor John Gavin [Caesar] to roar, 'Spartacus! Spartacus!', 'Hail Crassus' and of course, 'I'm Spartacus!'
Menl0 TIL of the "Brown Ocean Effect", wherein tropical cyclones maintain their strength of even intensify after making landfall. Tropical Storm Erin (2007) and Bill (2015) both exhibited characteristics of this phenomenon.
ElKP TIL A man who survived 5 concentration camps convinced Hasbro to start producing Transformers, also holds over 100 other patents, the best-known of which gave him the exclusive right in the United States to detect and display hole cards in poker games.
LEKv TIL: A new law in California protects drug users from criminal drug charges if they are seeking medical attention for OD victim.
mpmp TIL that in 1900, Italian King Umberto met a restaurant owner who looked exactly like himself. After speaking, they learned that they were born on the same day, of the same year, in the same town, and married a wife of the same name. They would both go on to be murdered the next day.