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Od4Y TIL of pizza farms, an educational farm where the ingredients of pizza are grown in one convenient location
7rAZx TIL the first Valentine's Day was in 496 named after Saint Valentine. Valentine secretly arranged marriages after a Roman Emperor had banned marriage. Valentine was jailed but fell in love with the jailor's daughter. He was executed on February 14, sending a love letter signed "from your Valentine".
Y7rr TIL “Manute Bol is the tallest player in the history of the National Basketball Association. He is also the only player in the NBA to have killed a lion with a spear and to have paid 80 cows for his wife.”
wLLJY TIL that Emperor Commodus would club citizens of Rome missing their feet tethered together to death while pretending they were giants in the arena.
KOJ49 TIL: Plato's real name was Aristocles, and that 'Plato' was a nickname (roughly 'the broad') derived either from the width of his shoulders, the results of training for wrestling, or from the breadth of his style, or from the size of his forehead.