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TIL: "Stone gambling" is a thing in China, where you buy uncut jadeite stones from vendors to cut open to see if there is high quality jadeite. It experienced a resurgence recently due to live streaming where streamers record themselves cutting open jadeite they bought reigniting the craze.

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kOrA4 TIL sections of a 2500 year old Greek play believed to have been lost forever in the fire that destroyed the great Library of Alexandria were rediscovered on papyrus stuffed inside an Egyptian mummy. The pages were later translated and used in an actual play that was presented to audiences
8akRG TIL Francisco Goya, depressed and having survived 2 life threatening illnesses in his later years, decorated his house with 14 "black paintings" with bleak themes. The famous "Saturn Devouring His Son" was a mural in his dining room
eaDb TIL York, the only African slave on the Lewis and Clark Expeditions, was thought of as a wild, spiritual creature by the Arikara Indians, saved Meriwether Lewis from a Grizzly Bear, and was responsible for many decisions along the journey.
gr0yy TIL of the Rio Negro Bridge at Manaus, Brazil, a huge and expensive bridge that is the only crossing point of the Amazon or any major tributary. It has been called "a quintessential bridge to nowhere" and does absolutely nothing to connect Manaus to Brazil's road network
mxLyE TIL of Shaul Ladany, the current 50-mile walk world record holder and a Holocaust survivor who also survived the 1972 Olympics Munich Massacre by jumping off a balcony.