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TIL that Roman mining activities in mid 200 BCE polluted European air so heavily that its traces can still be detected in ice cores

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RYZ9 TIL the phrase ‘It’s raining cats and dogs’ originated from the tendency of dead animals to be washed away following periods of heavy rain in the filthy streets of 17th century England.
aWgL TIL before establishing KFC, Colonel Sanders worked at a gas station and got into a gunfight with a rival gas station manager.
do6E TIL Photographer Robert Capa was the only photographer or journalist to land on Normandy with the first wave of troops. He took 106 pictures. Due to a later lab accident, only 11 survived.
Y7vbx TIL about the School of the Air, a term used for radio-borne (now Internet-based) correspondence schools that teach children who live in the most remote parts of the Australian outback, where there aren't enough people for a regular school.
xVPm0 Seven out of ten prescriptions written today are for items unknown to medicine before World War II.