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TIL about The Miracle of 1511, when the people of Brussels built pornographic snowmen as a form of protest against their rulers.

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Z8Mkv TIL that asbestos continues to be used in the United States and contributes to an estimated 12,000 to 15,000 deaths annually.
vPgMx TIL that the invention of the bicycle was sparked by the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora. The resulting Year Without a Summer caused crop failures and horse die-offs, which pushed Karl Drais to create the first bicycle as an alternative to horse travel.
djLB TIL of Kowloon Walled City – a bygone, ungoverned Chinese city with a population density of over 3 million people per square mile
4jOo TIL a Cleveland woman was ordered by a judge to stand on a corner during rush hour on two days holding a sign that read “Only an idiot would drive on the sidewalk to avoid a school bus”, after notoriously disregarding the law and laughing at the charges.
Ego1V TIL that most managers do not get any management training