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TIL: That the Seven Wonders of the World were written about by Philo of Byzantium as an advertisement to sightseers

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6EQJZ TIL When the American Confederacy lost the Civil War in May 1865, 10,000 Southerners fled the US for a small city in Brazil.
m10Oy TIL that the choir in the title sequence of Mr Bean is singing ‘Ecce homo qui est faba’, which translates to ‘Behold the man who is a bean.’ in Latin.
0jQA TIL Japan is the vending machine capital of the world and that machines can dispense free supplies in the event of disasters
QJ1a TIL the sequel to “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” involves Wonka and the Buckets narrowly escaping death at the hands(?) of vicious aliens in a government-funded space hotel and traveling into Hell (AKA Minusland) to save Grandma Georgina.
v14OD TIL: Somebody is serving 30 years in the Supermax Prison for "plotting to build an industrial X-ray machine that would spew lethal doses of radiation powerful enough to kill people from a distance"