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TIL that a bank was once sent through USPS brick by brick

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LgPd TIL that in ancient Rome, one of the most common cooking ingredients was called “laser”, from the silphium plant. It does not exist today: it was so delicious that it was harvested to extinction from its natural habitat in what is now Libya. We think that it probably tasted something like garlic.
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pY0DA TIL eating more protein is associated with a longer life span