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TIL of Umarell, an Italian subculture of older men who spend their time watching roadworks and construction sites.

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b9XyE TIL Queen Elizabeth once went for a walk near her Balmoral estate with one of her protection officers and met some American tourists who didn’t recognise her. They asked her if she’d ever met the Queen and she said “No”, then pointed to her officer and said “he has”. They didn’t connect the dots.
5YVAn Hot enough to boil oceans and vaporize rock. The highest terrestrial temperatures occurred more than four billion years ago, when a Mars-size proto-planet smashed into the Earth. (The debris from this collision formed our moon.) Within a millennium, the surface air temperature had dropped from a high of about 3,700°F down to 3,000°. Then the planet went into a period of slower cooling that lasted a few tens of millions of years.
e4Y5 TIL that not a single engineer made it off the Titanic: they stayed and kept the power on so others could escape.
v1pr TIL that Seth Green bases Chris Griffin’s voice on Buffalo Bill in Silence of the Lambs.
7ryYb TIL that knowledge of the Pythagorean theorem was widespead in Old Babylonia(Iraq today) 1900 years BC, more than 1000 years before Pythagoras was born.