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Today I learned that you could use tally sticks in England until 1826.

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n16W TIL Brandolini’s Law:The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
e0r0n TIL in Ancient Roman had a rather revealing "bikinis" that are very similar to the ones we use nowadays.
4Xpvg TIL that shinrin-yoku (meaning "forest bathing") is considered a form of nature therapy in Japan which has positive effects on mental and nervous wellbeing. It consists essentially in taking long walks in forests.
ZjVG TIL when the US Navy refused to cooperate during the filming of the movie Crimson Tide, filmmakers waited outside Pearl Harbor for a submarine to head to sea and chased it with a boat and helicopter to get the shot of it submerging.
YpV1r TIL about the Cheshire Mammoth Cheese, which was a gift to Thomas Jefferson by Elder John Leland that weighed 1235 pounds, and was only made with non-Federalist cows.