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TIL many of London’s streets were paved with wood

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E16yo TIL that King Martin of Aragon died from uncontrollable laughter after his favorite jester told him a joke to cheer him up
pY8GG TIL : only 70 years ago, between 200k and 2m landlords were purged in China, Being buried alive and dismembered.
aZ5J TIL of the NYC “Pizza Principle” which is a historically accurate “economic law” reported by The New York Times where the price of a slice of pizza has matched the price of a subway ride. It has been successfully used to predict the increase of subway fare on multiple ocassions.
1awoO TIL In 2014, the International Space Station had to move 3 times in order to avoid being hit by space junk moving at 17,000 mph
8aV1X TIL that former North Korean leader Kim Jong-il secretly studied English on the small island of Malta in the 1970s . His English teacher, Prof. Daniel Massa, said that he used to become irritable when hungry, especially when lessons overstepped their time limit and impinged on his lunch break.