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6EOdJ TIL that in one story, St. Nicholas resurrected three children who were killed by a butcher that wanted to sell their meat as ham. St. Nicholas was able to tell that they weren't actually ham.
XaXR TIL: Richard Johnson, the 9th Vice-President of the USA, literally owned his wife. Slave Julia Chinn was 1/8ths African and was inherited by Johnson after his father’s death. Interracial marriage was illegal, so Johnsonn kept her as his “slave.”
YvKA TIL in 1999, Ben Stiller made a pilot starring Jack Black as a former astronaut. He was exposed to inappropriate levels of solar energy, giving him superintelligence. And Owen Wilson played Heat Vision, a talking motorcycle.
p89pZ TIL Augustus Caesar is estimated at having a net worth of $4.6 trillion because he “personally owned all of Egypt”
mOjR TIL a man from Texas died after attempting to play Russian roulette with a semi-automatic pistol. He was apparently unaware that semi-automatic pistols automatically insert a cartridge into the firing chamber when the gun is cocked. He was posthumously awarded a Darwin Award.