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TIL the Roman Emperor Gaius Caesar, better known as Caligula and famed for his madness and cruelty, was given the nickname as a child when he was dressed up in little soldier’s boots, or caligae. It effectively means “Bootykins.”

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XEXjR TIL Stephen Marshall American-Canadian vigilante who searched publicly available Sex offender registries in the United States for the names and addresses of convicted sex offenders before traveling to Maine in the Northeastern United States and murdering two.
GYJpj TIL An edible fruitcake was discovered 100 years after British explorer Robert Falcon Scott died of starvation and exposure while attempting to become the first person to reach the South Pole in 1912
DQo1r TIL: The last surviving widow of the American Civil War passed away in 2021. In 1936, 17 year old Helen Jackson secretly married 93 year old Civil War veteran James Bolin. He passed away just three years later. Helen would live to the age of 101.
nWGy9 TIL in 1982, 7 people in the Chicago area died after ingesting Tylenol capsules laced with cyanide. James William Lewis sent an extortion letter to Johnson & Johnson, demanding $1 million to "stop the killings." While he was convicted of extortion, he was never charged with the murders.
rR8M TIL that luminaries including Noah Webster, Mark Twain, Benjamin Franklin, Andrew Carnegie, and Theodore Roosevelt advocated for simplified spelling, and many of them also supported simplified spellings of words such as though (tho), through (thru), and night (nite).