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

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epK8b TIL "Hill Valley" from Back to the Future was a wordplay joke
R7vV9 TIL Cash-strapped western hippies who came on buses to Nepal sold their Mercedes buses and those vehicles have been operational for nearly half a century.
LQ7br TIL that the world’s first traffic lights, installed outside London’s Houses of Parliament in 1868, were gas-lit. They used semaphore arms by day and lamps at night, operated by a policeman. Weeks later they exploded, injuring him. Traffic lights weren’t tried again in Britain for almost 60 years.
m1lry TIL about Jal Mahal, a palace built in 1699 in the middle of Man Sagar Lake. When the lake is full, four of the five floors of the red sandstone building become submerged. A 1.5 billion rupee project to restore the area is considered one of the largest and most unique in India.
8JkV TIL in 1973, Keith Moon, the drummer for The Who, passed out from horse tranquilizer. The band called on the crowd for a drummer and a fan, Scot Halpin, flawlessly stepped in for the rest of the show.