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TIL the foundry that made the Liberty Bell still exists and is the oldest manufacturing company in Great Britain

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Gnjg TIL that sperm is highly effective in treating wrinkles, and anti wrinkle products use similar materials to sperm because of how well it works
jNV4R TIL that the Pantheon in Rome was built in 126 AD and was the Largest dome in the world for more than 1,755 years until 1881 and is still the largest un-reinforced solid concrete dome in the world today.
gr5NX TIL Helium was detected on the sun before it was detected on Earth. That's why it was named for Helios, the Greek god of the sun.
rNO6x TIL there is another copy of the Mona Lisa in existence. It was presumably painted by a student of Leonardo da Vinci
b9LJ4 TIL the nose of a starnosed mole has 22 hypersensitive tentacles covered with 25,000 sensory receptors. The tentacles allow this type of mole to find, identify, and determine if something is edible in a quarter of a second. The tentacles allow the mole to smell underwater.