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TIL that the Roman Emperor Vespasian issued a tax on urinating in public latrines.

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4XojX TIL that chess is played at least once a year by 12% of British people, 15% of Americans, 23% of Germans, 43% of Russians, and 70% of Indian people
awBZN TIL about Wholphins, a rare cross between a whale and a dolphin. First recorded in 1981 in captivity, but also found in the wild.
4Zlg TIL that in the U.K 2002 a man attempted to refute a £25 motoring ticket by invoking the right to trial by combat, challenging the Driving Vehicle and Licensing Agency to elect a champion to do combat with him.
BwYD TIL according to an analysis by the Guttmacher Institute, unplanned pregnancies cost US taxpayers $2.1B each year, more than half of U.S. pregnancies are unintended, and roughly 1-in-20 American women of reproductive age have an unplanned pregnancy each year.
GyV1 TIL: One of the 57 people killed in the 1980 Mt St. Helens explosion was an 83 year old lodge owner named Harry Truman. Just before the 1980 eruption he said ’“If the mountain goes, I’m going with it” He and his 16 cats are presumed to have died in the eruption.