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TIL Julius Caesar had his facial hairs pulled out one by one by tweezers, rather than trust anyone to use a razor on his throat.

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OGYW1 TIL about the world's roundest object the Heason sphere. If this tiny sphere was blown up to the size of the earth, the height difference between the lowest point in the deepest ocean and the highest mountain would be just 10-15 feet.
BrEky TIL that because of Uranus’ axial tilt, it “rolls” around the sun like a marble. It’s poles each experience 42 years of light and 42 years of darkness during the summer and winter solstices.
OGjD1 TIL On March 3, 1876, residents of Olympian Springs, Kentucky, experienced a strange event known as the "Kentucky Meat Shower," where pieces of raw meat fell from the sky over an area of about 100 by 50 yards for a few minutes.
VxKG TIL that during Vietnam, the US would play a soundtrack listed as the ‘Ghost tape’. It would play funeral songs and voices supposedly from the dead warning the soldiers to surrender or suffer the same fate.
mxpoP TIL One of the founders of Starbucks returned a priceless collection of Chinese coins owned by his grandfather and donated it to the Shanghai Mint Museum in 2010. Its earliest piece is a coin mold dating back to 200 B.C., during the reign of Qin Shihuang