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TIL of "hunger stones": the Central European practice of marking river levels with carved stones during droughts, to warn future generations that there will be a famine if the water level again gets low enough to see the carving. This has been done at least since 1115, and as recently as 2018.

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ro60 TIL that US president Cleveland developed a close relationship with his friend’s baby daughter. When his friend died, a court appointed him to administer the estate, making him closer to the then 11 y.o. girl. When she graduated university at 21, Cleveland (49 y.o.) married her while President.
NBkb TIL that Robert “Yummy” Sandifer was a well known gang member and was convicted of 23 felonies and 5 misdemeanors….. all by the age of 11.
rR7b4 TIL the maze generation algorithm for the 1982 Atari game Entombed always makes solvable mazes just by looking at the 5 nearest tiles, and nobody understands why it works—it came upon a programmer when he was drunk
LNpP TIL There is an abandoned Russian cruise ship roaming international waters.
X1pR TIL that cayenne pepper can stop bleeding by applying directly to wounds