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TIL Romans wiped their butts with a sea sponge on a stick that they kept in a bucket of salt water or vinegar.

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MMvV TIL when the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play a home game, the stadium is filled with enough people to qualify as the state’s third-largest city.
QJN69 TIL of "soft despotism": a state into which a country overrun by "a network of small complicated rules" might degrade. It gives people the illusion that they are in control, when in fact they have very little influence over their government.
Yp11Z TIL the Pentagon was built in less than a year and a half and was only supposed to be temporary
Wkm5B TIL most of the sodium in instant ramen is in the noodles not the flavor packet.
b66np TIL about just 1 of Michael Jordan's streams of revenue. He receives 5% royalty on every Jordan Brand item sold. Shoes, apparel and international business earning soared to 4.7 billion dollars in 2021. That means Jordan makes about 645,000 dollars every morning he opens his eyes.