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TIL Australia’s most successful athlete is David Foster. He has held the World Woodchopping Championship title for 21 consecutive years and won over 1000 titles.

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pYEL4 TIL in the Second Catiline Conspiracy: Cicero saved Rome's republic from a coup but had to go outside due process, leading to his exile. His exile was later lifted but his actions revealed the complete lack of confidence in the court system on which the New Republic of Sulla was allegedly based.
e0Nlk TIL Joya de Cerén in El Salvador is a pre-hispanic farming village that was covered by a volcanic eruption in the seventh century AD, similar to Pompeii.
OGkEg TIL: About “Crab Mentality” - a metaphor used to indicate the way of thinking usually described as “If I can’t have something, neither can you”
1aZWV TIL From the 1940s until the 1970s, Ivy League schools including Harvard and Yale took nude photos of all incoming freshmen.
69RMw TIL that Candles have been used for over 5,000 years, dating back to the ancient Egyptians who made candles from beeswax and tallow.