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TIL that the big US banks own 5 vacant homes for every homeless person

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W7g4o TIL the first steam engine, known as the 'Aeolipile,' was invented in the 1st century AD by the Hero of Alexandria, a Greek-Egyptian mathematician and engineer, in Alexandria, Egypt
9EQG TIL a group of rabbits is called a ‘fluffle’
0B7N TIL George Clooney Keeps A Photo Of Himself As Batman ‘As Cautionary Reminder Of What Happens When You Make Movies For Commercial Reasons’
xVLND TIL according to an autopsy report an Alabama minister who died of “accidental mechanical asphyxia” in his home, was found hogtied, wearing two complete wet suits, including a face mask, diving gloves and slippers, rubberized underwear, a head mask, and had a dildo in his anus covered with a condom
mxMwY TIL I learned that quarterbacks Joe Montana, Joe Namath, Dan Marino, Jim Kelly, Johnny Unitas and George Blanda all grew up in and around Pittsburgh.