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0wVgL TIL that Isaac Newton was born on Christmas day, 1642 according to the Julian calendar. But when the British changed to the Gregorian calendar his birthday retroactively changed to January 4, 1643.
lV77 TIL after Sir Walter Raleigh was beheaded, his widow kept the embalmed head by her side for 22 years, and would ask guests if they would like to meet him
XjrR TIL that Teddy Roosevelt once knocked out a drunken gunman in a bar brawl, after the man called him ‘Four Eyes’