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TIL there are hundreds of 1000-year-old underground tunnel systems in Bavaria, and nobody really knows who built them or what they’re for.

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WDGN TIL that the US now uses less water than it did in 1970
oB80Y TIL Lonzo Ball admitted his injuries with the Lakers were due to his own $495 Big Baller Brand shoes. “And it’s crazy because right when I’d switch my shoes, and then all of a sudden I got good again.”
5YR6r TIL about the existence of "reverse money laundering", the process of disguising the use of clean money to finance illegal activities.
P6oZ TIL the Soviets suffered more casualties at the Battle of Stalingrad than the Americans did for the entirety of World War 2.
5ydQ TIL there’s only one verified male supercentenarian alive at the moment. Living in Japan, Yasutora Koide is currently 112 years, 197 days old. Every other verified supercentenarian is a female, of which there are at least 49 alive.