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TIL The Rolling Stones, the cast of Empire Strikes Back, and Monty Python’s Eric Idle partied together one night at his house in London in 1979

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4er6 TIL Reddit’s founders posted content under lots of fake usernames during the early days to set content tone
4XVOJ TIL more than 30 countries sell citizenship or residence permits for cash. In Thailand, the cost is $10,000, while fast-track residence in the UK requires $10m.
D9OP TIL that The Smokey Bear Effect is a bad thing, decades of preventing small fires leads to the accumulation of undergrowth, that fuels massive superfires today
xVxyB TIL Falernian wine was the most renowned in ancient Rome. In Pompeii, a price list on the wall says "For one [coin] you can drink wine, For two you can drink the best, For four you can drink Falernian"
a8LZb TIL that the human-dog relationship goes back many thousands of years. A skeleton of a dog, buried 14,000 years ago, was found next to that of two people. The dog skeleton shows that it survived a serious infection as a puppy. Had humans not frequently fed and cleaned the dog, it would have died.