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TIL Zürich has around 1200 water fountains. That’s an average of one every 0.03 miles of the city’s 34 square miles

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ROK1 TIL while sexual sadist serial killer Peter Kürten was in a guillotine, he said to a priest, “Tell me… after my head is chopped off, will I still be able to hear, at least for a moment, the sound of my own blood gushing from the stump of my neck? That would be the pleasure to end all pleasures.”
Jmoj TIL the last surviving Confederate widow (who died in 2004) married her former husband’s grandson, whose stepson was also his great uncle.
nWPP TIL there is a “green” cemetery in Pennsylvania that doubles as a national forest where people can hike and picnic. No caskets, no formaldehyde, just dirt and trees.
Ajwx TIL that for the first 6 years of Pavarotti’s career, he couldn’t get paid singing roles and had to work as an elementary school teacher and insurance salesman to support himself.
6doY TIL two brothers inherited one of the Hawaiian islands, Niihau, and have turned down all offers to sell including $1 billion from the U.S. government