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TIL freshly cut grass smells the way it does because it’s a shriek of dispair

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8aP8b TIL Romans didn't vomit during feasts, a vomitorium is a series of entrance or exit passages in an ancient Roman amphitheatre or theatre.
QNvGa TIL That SCOTUS does not fact check the information they use to help make decisions.
nN6W TIL that the actors who play Mac and Dee on It’s Always Sunny are married…so are Charlie and the waitress as well as Dennis and the girl from “The D.E.N.N.I.S. System” episode.
7rjPr TIL after executing the royal Romanov family the Cheka gathered up distant relatives and threw them down the same mine shaft they put the royal family. Many people didn't die so they used grenades to finish them off. When that didn't work they put brushwood down the shaft and lit it on fire.
9wYjm TIL Philippe Pétain was a French hero in WWI, who collaborated with the nazis in WWII as leader of Vichy France.