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TIL you can pay to bathe in radioactive water in Japan

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oRKvY TIL:In 1523, Charles V allowed the construction of a cathedral choir and main altar within the Mesquita, a famed mosque in Cordoba, Spain. Charles later regretfully declared, “You have built what you or others might have built anywhere, but you have destroyed something that was unique in the world.”
1GkD TIL that all the domestic cattle today descended from a single group of 80 Aurochs (a type of cattle hunted to extinction by early humans).
M7YmB TIL that the pistol shrimp can create a bubble underwater that reaches temperatures similar to the surface of the sun.
neRyP TIL about Bamboo torture where a person would be fixed in place over fast growing bamboo to be impaled over time.
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