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TIL There Was a Mysterious 60,000 Ton Stone Structure Discovered Beneath the Sea Near Isreal

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4Xe8o TIL that in the 80s, businessman Armand Hammer bought a significant portion of the company that makes "Arm & Hammer" products simply because people kept asking him about the name
v1MAr TIL there is a festival in India called Gore Habba. Villagers celebrate by throwing & smearing cow poop at each other. Similar to La Tomatina in Spain but replace the tomatoes with cow poop. Vids in comments.
E1Py7 TIL a 38 year old woman named Joyce Vincent died in her London flat watching TV, and her body lay undisturbed until almost 3 years later when city officials came to repossess the apartment due to unpaid rent.
gkl9 TIL in France it is illegal to wear swimming trunks in public pools, everyone has to wear some form of speedo.
KOQdR TIL when Stephen Hawking gave a lecture in Japan, he was asked not to mention the possible re-collapse of the universe for fears it may impact the stock market