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TIL Richard Littler has been writing a blog of the history of Scarfolk, a fictional, supernatural-tinged town perpetually stuck in the 1970s. Littler presents the town's story through materials from the council's "archive": posters, pamphlets and packaging that reveal aspects of everyday life.

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oB68L TIL In ancient Rome, masters discouraged slaves from running away by putting a tattoo reading "Stop me! I am a runaway!" on their foreheads.At a temple of the Greek god of healing, thousands of tablets from escaped slaves asking the god to make the tattoos on their forehead disappear have been found
w6Y TIL Ancient Egyptians believed that their god, Atum, created the universe by masturbating, so Pharaohs masturbated ceremonially into the Nile.
6EvN7 TIL that in 1978, Reinhold Messner reached the summit of Mt Everest without using supplementary oxygen, a task which had previously been considered impossible. Two years later, he did it again by himself, completing the first solo ascent of the mountain
N7V7b TIL During truce talks between North and South Korea, both parties would try to bring a bigger national flag than the other to each meeting. This went on until a special meeting was called to address the size of the flags, as they could no longer fit in the room.
VjMm TIL that most Uber drivers make less than $11/hour