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TIL There's a decades-long experimental archeology project in France to build a 13th century castle with period tools.

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wBLo TIL a U.S. court of law ruled that burritos are not a form of sandwich.
PYlkO TIL NASA funded a project (1960s) to learn how to communicate with dolphins. The experiment went awry, and trainers began giving handjobs to the dolphins.
8a6pb TIL The husband of British writer Angelica Garnett (a niece of Virginia Woolf) had once been a lover of her biological father. She later dated a painter who had also been one of her father's lovers.
VBKa4 TIL the current Duke of Wellington is also the Prince of Waterloo and is styled 'His Serene Highness', a title granted by the Dutch king in 1815, which comes with the hereditary right to 2,600 acres of land in Belgium.
691oJ TIL about The Cube Rule of Food Identification through cuberule.com in which they explain what constitutes a sandwich (~3-5 minute read)