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TIL about lovers at Valdaro, two skeletons who have been locked in an eternal embrace for the last 6,000 years.

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GY6YG TIL that there are impressive advancements in dealing with human waste. Examples: Temple of Poop (w/ flowering rooftop), 2 way mirror outhouse, urinals w/ sink to flush while washing hands, and Poo Power (toilets that turn waste into electricity).
R7PD8 TIL in 1740, a mother, annoyed that her son would play immature pranks on people wrote “All his talents lie in things only natural in boys of fifteen years old, and he is about two and fifty; to get people into his garden and wet them, and put things in their beds to make them itch”
oRKRr TIL that in 2007, China built a town named Tianducheng, using various design aspects of Paris. It even has its own version of the Eiffel Tower.
xVEXB TIL that when Apple began designating employee numbers, Steve Jobs was offended that Wozniak received #1 while he got #2. He believed he should be second to no one, so he took #0 instead.
v1NJ7 TIL in 1959 a white man from Texas disguised himself as a black man and traveled for six weeks on greyhound buses. After publishing his experiences with racism he was forced to move to Mexico for several years due to death threats.