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TIL Like the city of Detroit, Pompeii was heavily graffitied.

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yjEJ TIL that the Grand Mosque of Paris provided refuge and muslim IDs for Jews trying to escape the clutches of the axis powers and the holocaust during WW II.
5VDQp TIL the universe is not "locally real"—the evidence provided by 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics recipients John Clauser, Alain Aspect, & Anton Zeilinger, who showed that objects are not influenced solely by their surroundings ("local") and may also lack definite properties prior to measurement ("real").
1g0V TIL in the 19th century the word gay referred to a woman who was a prostitute and a gay man was someone who slept with a lot of women.
kxl4 TIL of the largest hotel suite in the world, located 22 stories under the surface in the Grand Canyon Caverns. One night for two people in this 65 million year old cave is $700
ZGgR TIL: The phrase “kill them all, let God sort them out” comes from a Crusader in 1209 who wiped out a town of cathar ‘heretics’. Couldn’t tell them apart from Catholics, so killed em all