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TIL ancient graffiti found in Pompeii calls into dispute the date Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD. A millennia would pass before archeologist’s would discover a workers charcoal inscription dated 17 October 79 AD. 2 months after the infamous city was allegedly buried under 20 feet of ash and pumice stone.

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VE4Z TIL In the 1500s, they used to use urine to tan animal skins, so families used to all pee in a pot & then once a day it was taken & sold to the tannery, making you “Piss Poor” if you did it to survive.
gArX TIL that in 1861, Giuseppe Garibaldi, hero of Italy’s independence, volunteered his services to President Abraham Lincoln and was offered a Major General’s commission in the U.S. Army. His sole condition: that the war’s objective be declared as the abolition of slavery.
Zn6B TIL that the man from the “Technoviking” video sued the creator for violating his ‘personality rights’ 13 years later, taking all his earnings from the video/merchandise and sending him into debt. The creator had to crowdfund for a documentary about the video to get out of debt.
jNVea TIL about the Mathematician Fry Lewis Richardson who discovered that it is impossible to measure the length of coastlines in a meaningful manner. This so-called Coastline Paradox later led to the creation of the field of Fractal Geometry.
gMvGL TIL the "lifespan" of the electron is 66,000 yottayears (6.6 × 1028 years) or about 5 quintillion times longer than the current age of the universe.