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TIL historians are uncertain the precise location of the Rubicon River, which Julius Caesar crossed triggering civil war in Rome

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Z8JeB TIL There was a second Fukushima nuclear power plant (Fukushima Daini), 10km to the south, that suffered the same crippling tsunami damage but was saved from meltdown by a capable leader and heroic staff.
kJ7ng TIL that the now common white variant of the edible mushroom Agaricus bisporus is only about a century old and was serendipitously discovered in a Pennsylvania farm.
W9L8 TIL that the last words of Norman Douglas, a British author most known for the 1917 novel ‘South Wind’, were “Get those fucking nuns away from me.”
xV0GB TIL that the Catholic Church runs 26% of the world’s hospitals
J1jVB TIL that the Alabama State Constitution, at 376,000 words, is the longest known constitution in the world. It is 4.5x longer than any other state constitution, 3x longer than India's (the longest national constitution), and almost 50x longer than the US constitution.