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oxgE TIL that there is a Stonehenge type megalithic stone, calender structure in the Sahara Desert, built around 6000 years ago
j6pNn TIL San Francisco’s Alcatraz, the former federal penitentiary was the only prison to offer hot-water showers at the time
J1RKm TIL a founding father of the American mafia ran his empire from a funeral home. and he was called "the undertaker".
Z86PG TIL: Beethoven loved his coffee so much that he had his own recipe. It consisted of 60 beans. Not 59, not 61, but precisely 60. He would drop them into a cup separately and sometimes do a second recount. He also had a special apparatus for preparing it.
R7EKj TIL that up until the mid twentieth century in China, coins produced during the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127CE) were unofficially used as currency.