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TIL that not only did 43% of Pompeii buildings have indoor toilets, some also had plumbing for toilets on the second floor.

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ZV5R TIL learned when the Soviets exhumed Tamerlane’s body in 1941, they found an inscription in his casket that said “Who ever opens my tomb, shall unleash an invader more terrible than I.” Hitler invaded the USSR two days later
v1ML8 TIL about Ed Long who clocked over 65,000 hours flying. Started at the age of 17 with his first and only lesson in 1933.
eyW6 TIL Seinfeld has a net worth of roughly $820,000,000. More than Tom Hanks and Tom Cruise combined.
x68Q7 TIL: Fairyflies are very tiny insects, like most chalcidoid wasps, mostly ranging from 0.5 to 1.0 mm (0.020 to 0.039 in) long. They include the world's smallest known insect, with a body length of only 0.139 mm (0.0055 in), and the smallest known flying insect, only 0.15 mm (0.0059 in) long.
EgMEV TIL Salmon sperm DNA is used in molecular biology experiments as a standard or template for PCR and as a competitor in hybridisation assays due to its high purity. It can even increase the human DNA recovered from a cotton swab.