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TIL when 20th-century archaeologist Leonard Woolley excavated the temple at Ur, he found rows of neatly arranged artifacts of varying ages accompanied by inscriptions describing them: a 2500-year-old archaeological museum

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woEEP TIL: The Shanghai Marriage Market is held at the People's Park on weekends where parents of unmarried children gather and trade their children's information with other parents to find a match. It has existed since 2004 and in 2013 it cost $3.20 for an ad there and marriage brokers charge a $16 fee.
pY5j8 TIL about Flaco, an owl that escaped from the Central Park zoo. The WSJ called him a peeping tom for frequently being caught looking in apartment windows throughout Manhattan. 1 year after escape he collided into a building, his necropsy revealed large traces of rat poison and pigeon herpesvirus.
NY0N TIL: The No Child Left Behind Act requires schools to provide contact information for students to military recruiters
7r9r7 TIL that a hydrogen bomb is actually a package of three bombs: One conventional bomb casing, one regular atomic fission bomb and one fusion bomb.
Zp8XY TIL that it takes about 50 minutes to soft-boil and 90-120 minutes to hard-boil an ostrich egg.