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TIL Owen and Luke Wilson are brothers! And they have an older brother!

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8eYZ4 TIL Roman Emperor Diocletian was the first to voluntarily retire in 305 AD to grow cabbages. When begged to return to power, he declined, saying "If you could see the vegetables I grow with my own hands, you wouldn’t talk to me about empire." He lived out his days gardening by the Dalmatian coast
yA9p TIL after a four-year-old was mailed from her parents to her grandparents, the mailing of people was prohibited by the US Postal Service.
Zp7Wv TIL that adjusting for inflation, McDonalds in 1940 was more expensive than today. For example, the basic cheeseburger cost $3.89
ZpwRp TIL about the Basus war, a tribal war that spanned 40 years over the murder of a camel.
LQX70 TIL the earliest existing record of a telescope was a 1608 patent submitted to the government in the Netherlands by Middelburg spectacle maker Hans Lipperhey. The actual inventor is unknown but word of it spread through Europe. Galileo heard about it and, in 1609, built his own version.