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TIL that the city council of Rome still uses SPQR on some of it's correspondence. A 2,000 year + old slogan: Senatus Populusque Romanus. It means "The Senate and Roman People".

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5YvAk TIL that the state of Texas will permanently revoke teaching certificates and retirement benefits from any educator who goes on strike.
vPNaR TIL that, when coffee arrived from Arabia to Europe, it boosted the Renaissance and the Age of Enlightenment. In the early days, the Royal Society of London used to meet in a coffee shop, not in a pub.
E11Ko TIL: Quarts and Liters are almost exactly the same
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pR5A TIL that women made most of the oldest-known cave art paintings. By comparing the relative lengths of certain fingers researchers determined that three-quarters of the handprints were female.