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TIL The quote ‘curiosity killed the cat’ actually has a second part where 'satisfaction brought it back’, meaning the full quote is 'Curiosity killed the cat but satisfaction brought it back’.

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5L4r TIL of “The Case of the Stolen Smell” in which an innkeeper accused a poor student of stealing the fumes of his cooking by eating when the innkeeper was cooking to flavour his dull food. The judge ordered the student to pay the innkeeper with the sound of money by passing it from one hand to another
neQGB TIL The Germans possessed the largest calibered rifled weapon ever used in combat. It was a railway mounted artillery gun that weighted 1.3 million kilograms (3 million pounds) and was capable of firing a 7,000kg (15,000lb) shell 47 kilometers (29 miles). It was destroyed by the Germans in 1945.
GAnA7 TIL that the Tour de France has a dedicated support team to travel the route ahead of the stage and cover graffiti of genitals.
XEWEQ TIL that the dust from Sahara Desert provides valuable phosphorous to the Amazon rainforest, allowing the latter to thrive.