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TIL in 1963 that a 21-year-old rock and roll star named Ulysses Baxter pushed a peanut up Pikes Peak mountain with his nose! He had attached a salad spoon to his nose and pushed for 8 days until he reached the summit. The craziest part is that he wasn't even the first to do this!

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Ookk7 TIL Julius Caesar’s only son, Caesarion, was the last Pharaoh of Egypt. Even though Cleopatra swears he is Caesar’s son, Caesar never officially acknowledged him.
KOwWR TIL that the scream before the guitar solo in the Kinks' "You Really Got Me" was used to overdub Dave Davies telling his brother Ray to "fuck off."
loKva TIL that people from other countries also adopt American babies (referred to as an “outgoing adoption”) and the babies are primarily all African American
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