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TIL Ancient Roman coins were found buried underneath a remote castle in Japan. Archaeologists still have no idea how they got there.

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wLLbJ TIL that in 2013, Dubai began outfitting its police officers with super cars.
N4Z1 TIL: In WW2 the Manhattan Project used the codename “Copper” for the element Plutonium. They then had to rename the element Copper to “Honest-to-God Copper.”
xVLnk TIL in 1989 96 people were killed at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, England after they were crushed due to overcrowding. Although match attendees and hooliganism were first cited as the cause, a 2016 inquiry found the police to be at fault due to their mismanagement of the crowd.
Kbpa TIL Milhouse got his name because it was the most “unfortunate name Matt Groening could think of for a kid”
pYype TIL That platypus have no nipples. Their milk oozes out of mammary gland ducts and collects in grooves on their skin--where the nursing babies lap it up or suck it from tufts of fur.