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TIL that when Julius Caesar was kidnapped by pirates,he demanded they increase his ransom,treated the pirates as subordinates while enslaved,earned their respect and friendship,only to tell them he would hunt them down and have them executed when freed;which he eventually did.

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GY9x7 TIL Ida Craddock, a 19th century sex educator, wrote pamphlets that advised couples on the importance of foreplay, complications of having too big of a penis, and how to properly rupture the hymen. She later committed suicide after being sentenced to prison for breaking obscenity laws.
9EKD TIL Harriet the Tortoise died in an Australian zoo at the age of 176. She was born before the light bulb (not just Edison’s) and the first power plant. Her death was announced on CNN. She was brought back from the Galapagos by a young scientist named Charles Darwin.
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JLnl TIL actor Danny Trejo does not do his own stunts because he says “I don’t want to risk 80 people’s jobs just so I can say I have big nuts.”
epVKn TIL that music helps people with their focus perinatal stress and other psychological discoordination in their life