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TIL that (UK) Pelican crossings have nothing to do with birds. They’re called Pelicon crossings which stands for people light controlled

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AD78x TIL the people of St. Pauli, Hamburg, were sick of their district smelling like urine because of nightclub patrons relieving themselves on the street. So they painted the buildings with special paint that repels water so forcefully public urinators end up peeing on themselves.
Br4YK TIL that Pizza Hut had plans to project their logo onto the Moon
9Y966 TIL Ancient Egyptian papyri and Sumerian tablets dating back to 2200 BC detail the medicinal role of wine, making it the world's oldest documented human-made medicine. Wine continued to play a major role in medicine until the early 20th century.
BrD1r TIL that there is more water in the vapor and clouds above the Amazon rainforest than there is in the Amazon river
awRYJ TIL of Lajos Kossuth, a Hungarian revolutionary whose English speeches were wildly popular in 1850s America. He learned his archaic English from Shakespeare books while in prison; such speeches even influenced the Gettysburg Address, as Abraham Lincoln was a noted fan.