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TIL that pineapples do not grow on trees, but on the ground

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L0dm TIL that the city of Rome had a population in excess of 1 million people in 100AD, yet by the 14th century the population was estimated to be only 17,000
5Y0mP TIL In some countries (Czech Republic, Slovakia, and parts of Hungary) there is a traditional Easter Whipping. Men spank women with special handmade whips on Easter Monday. If men arrive at women's houses after 12:00, women throw a bucket of cold water on them.
8elEa TIL of Eastern Air Lines Flight 212 which crashed into terrain on September 11, 1974, killing 72. Among them was the VP for academic affairs of the Medical University of South Carolina and two of his sons - the father and brothers of future tv personality Stephen Colbert.
KOO7Q Imagine yourself at a concert hall looking at a symphonic orchestra on stage. Have you ever noticed that high-pitched strings sit left of low-pitched strings? Going from left to right, one usually sees violins, violas, cellos and double basses. That is, one moves from high pitches on the left to low pitches on the right. Why? The orchestra’s arrangement is not a cultural oddity, like driving on the right side of the road. Rather, it is due to our own biological makeup. Higher pitches tend to be better processed by the left hemisphere of the brain, while lower pitches tend to be better processed by a similar region in the right hemisphere. This organisation is thought to have repercussions far beyond music, perhaps even helping to explain why language is mostly processed in the left hemisphere. So the part of my brain that better processes high sounds sits where the higher-pitched instruments sit: on the left. But that’s not the end of the story.
Wk6pd TIL Luciano Leggio, the former head of the Corleonesi Mafia clan, was first convicted at age 18 for stealing corn. As soon as he completed a six-month sentence, he murdered the man who had reported him to the police.