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TIL Even in ancient statues Atlas is carrying a round world.

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dD7GZ TIL that Giacomo Puccini's wife, Elvira, spiked his coffee with bromide to suppress his sexual urges when attractive women came to dinner. It doesn't seem to have worked as he had numerous affairs.
k7bd TIL: In Biertan village in Transylvania Romania, the church had a “divorce/reconciliation room”: Couples that wanted to break up had to live two weeks in a room with one small bed, one table with one chair, one spoon, one plate. In 300 years they had just one divorce.
YG6Z TIL In 2004 a 13yo girl was walking to school but was shot and wounded at a distance by IDF soldiers. As she cowered, wounded behind a rock an Israeli captain went up to her and emptied 17 bullets from his rifle into her at point blank range. The captain was exonerated and later promoted to a Major.
kOOYW TIL Thomas Edison's literal last breath is held in a vial at the Henry Ford Museum.
Nn1P TIL Human induced evolution created today’s watermelons, growing them 1680 times the size of the original and becoming 3,3 times sweeter