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TIL that the Roman emperor Claudius wrote a now lost book on the art of playing dice.

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6E7M7 TIL Most of your bodies serotonin (90%) is produced within your digestive track not your brain.
699K7 TIL in 2009, artist Jess Dobkin performed “It’s Not Easy Being Green” while dressed as Kermit the Frog, and getting fisted by someone dressed as Jim Henson
16JBW TIL that the Roman Baths in the city of Bath, England, were closed for several years after a brain eating amoeba was found in the water
4exo TIL that in 1856, the color mauve was invented accidentally in a young chemist’s attempt to cure malaria. Instead of curing the disease, the ink was picked up by the Queen and took Victorian fashion by storm.
7vb7 TIL In Japan, houses are considered depreciating assets. Half of all homes are destroyed by the time they are 38 and rebuilt. There are 4 times as many architects and twice as many construction workers per capita as the US. There is no home equity LOC and virtually no home improvement industry.