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TIL that one of Portugal's most important poets was a broke man who lived in Mozambique depending on friends for food.

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Yp49B TIL about Carles Recio, who showed up to work only to clock in & out for over a decade, spending his free time running a male brothel & drawing erotic comics.
PYkBn TIL “the ancient Greeks used spider web clusters to stop bleeding in soldiers. They combined honey and vinegar to clean out the wounds. Then a wad of spider webs would be placed on top and held until the bleeding reduced.”
M7P9W TIL In 2020, the wine market was expected to be worth $418 billion with experts estimating that around 20% of all the wines sold around the world are counterfeit.
rNe8o TIL that Calcio Storico, the supposedly ancient form of football played in Florence, was not played until the late-15th century and actually died out in the early-17th century. It was only revived by Mussolini in 1930.
1aBXO TIL about the Delaware Aqueduct. It is a 70 year old, 80 mile long man made aqueduct that connects NYC to clean water. It has been leaking since the '90s and they are having a hard time fixing it because the only thing keeping it from collapsing is positive pressure from the water.