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TIL there’s a fountain in Italy that dispenses free wine 24-7.

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ANQG4 TIL of the ancient city of Benin in Nigeria. It’s walls stretched 4x the length of the Great Wall of China. Unfortunately it was sacked by the British in the late 19th Century and there’s almost nothing left
XAjR TIL: The first successfully cloned cat was named CopyCat. They saw an opportunity and they took it.
RkKj TIL in 1251 the king kept a polar bear in the Tower of London, which “attracted a great deal of attention from Londoners when it went fishing in the Thames”
LkD89 TIL that Rene Auberjonois, who played Odo on Star Trek: Deep Space 9, is the fourth great nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte
REV6 TIL that Pope Benedict XVI enjoyed flying helicopters, had a helicopter’s pilot’s license, but he did not have a driver’s license.