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TIL Homestarrunner was the original creator of the misspelling Doge

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ndjW TIL there is an experimental town in India called Auroville. They have no paper or coin currency. Men and women of all countries are able to live in peace and progressive harmony, above all creeds, all politics and all nationalities, to realize human unity.
kJo74 TIL that before the 19th century, the Versailles was often extremely dirty. Women pulled up their skirts up to pee where they stood, while some men urinated in the middle of the royal chapel. Marie-Antoinette was once hit by human waste being thrown out the window as she walked through a courtyard.
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