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TIL those holes in the mortar around my brick home are called weep holes and a sign of good masonry work.

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45n5 TIL spectators at Roman circuses divided themselves into four color-themed teams, the Reds, the Whites, the Greens, and the Blues, each of which attracted fanatical support. During one riot, 30000 Greens and Blues were massacred in a single day.
kO7Q5 TIL lewis Carrol developed ideas in linear algebra, probability & the study of elections & committees. Also one of his inventions was a writing tablet called the nyctograph that allowed note-taking in the dark, thus eliminating the need to get out of bed and strike a light when one woke with an idea
ep7r5 TIL in 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashed in the Andes Mountain east of Chile. The survivors had to resort to cannibalism to survive in freezing cold weather. Rescue arrived after two months when two survivors climbed a 4650-meter mountain peak and hiked 61 km to seek help.
M7rGV TIL the actor who played Sea Bass in Dumb and Dumber (1994) is Hockey Hall of Famer and Boston Bruins president Cam Neely.
new0r TIL about the world's largest collective book writing project