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TIL a Chinese doctor spent 6 years illegally building a mountainous stone penthouse on top of a residential urban tower, “complete with boulders, trees, gardens, pools and ponds.”

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rR9Q4 TIL a small town in southern Kyoto, Japan has a yearly festival and monument next to a shrine dedicated to Thomas Edison. He used the bamboo from the town Yawata for his filament in the lightbulbs which increased the use time from 40 hours to 1,000
J1PDV TIL women get smegma too
b6640 TIL when you blush, the lining of your stomach also turns red.
WkdYY TIL a few months before playing a famed role in the Union Army's defense at the Battle of Gettysburg, the 20th Maine experienced a vicious outbreak of smallpox. The entire regiment was quarantined in an effort to protect the rest of the Army of the Potomac.
5aOk TIL that slavery didn’t end after the Civil War. Until 1945, a system of neoslavery existed whereby African Americans could be arrested for not having jobs, then sold to companies like U.S. Steel through a “convict lease” system to do forced labor.