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

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vD8R TIL In 2007, in response to an increase in pedestrians wearing headphones being hit by cars, NY proposed making it illegal to cross the street with headphones. Australian State Traffic Commander, Chief Superintendent responded, “You can’t legislate stupidity” and Australia ran a warning-ad instead.
m1d6E TIL that pope Alexander VI liked to watch horses copulate. Which would make him “laugh fit to bust.
4X55a TIL a miner in the California desert spent 40 years digging a half-mile tunnel alone, by hand. Twenty years into the project, the state completed a road that eliminated the need for the tunnel, but the miner spent another two decades finishing it.
j6OGM TIL that Ted Bundy worked briefly at a suicide hotline in Seattle in 1971 and met Ann Rule while volunteering there. Ann Rule later wrote The Stranger Beside Me, a true-crime book about Bundy.
R7Qml TIL 140 million years ago, India was part of an immense supercontinent called Gondwana, in the Southern Hemisphere. About 80 million years ago, it accelerated its drift to Eurasia at about 15cm per year — about twice as fast as the fastest modern tectonic drift. The impact created the Himalayas.