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TIL Pythagorean cup is a cup that automatically empties itself if you fill it too much.

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N7oee TIL Ancient romans used to sell their pee, to be turned into ammonia for a variety of uses. Vespasian imposed a tax on urine collection, and responding to those who found it disgusting, he coined the phrase "Pecunia non olet"(money doesn't stink)
m1rAO TIL that when Nikita Khrushchev visited America in 1959, he gave an impassioned speech where he complained about not being allowed to visit Disneyland.
GYad1 TIL In 1994, the first polyurethane condoms were produced, designed for people with latex allergies.
MnNA TIL The crown Princess of Japan, Masako, lived abroad in the US, became a polyglot, and studied at Harvard. Along with knowing Japanese and English, she was in her school’s French Club and won an award for her German poetry. To top it off, she was also involved in the production of MAS*H.
mxMLE TIL considered today the worlds largest living organism is a grove of 47,000 Aspen which are basically clones of each other. Together they would weigh around 6,600 tons (5,987 metric tons). The General Sherman sequoia itself weighs just a few hundred tons less, a testament to the size of a sequoia.