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TIL that the Roman emperor Vespasian did not in fact issue a tax on urinating in public latrines but instead on the distribution of urine collected from Rome's public urinals

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grEeD TIL that the species of bear depicted on the California State Flag has been extinct since 1924. Similar in size to the Kodiak Bear, the California Grizzly Bear was aggressive, commonly weighed over 1,000 pounds, averaged 8 ft tall and could run 35 mph.
RyV6 TIL the first chatbot-to-chatbot conversation ended in an argument about God
oRKyW TIL electric cars can drive through deep water unscathed
oBVER TIL that 11% of Americans think that HTML is an STD.
aE6L TIL in the desert in Syria, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, there are series of thousands ancient huge, wheel-shaped structures which can only be viewed from space, similar to Nazca lines in Peru