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TIL Ancient Greek used to ostracize potential tyrants with a vote, essentially forcing them to leave the city

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x7R7 TIL the barking sounds heard at the beginning of Jane’s Addiction’s single “Been Caught Stealing” was the result of singer Perry Farrell’s dog in the vocal booth. He and his dog ran around the room and the dog started barking inside.
5YPJn TIL that after moving to Springfield, Illinois, Abraham Lincoln and his best friend Jonathan Speed shared a bed for four years. Later, during the Civil War, Lincoln shared a bed with his bodyguard David Derickson any time Mary Todd Lincoln was absent from the White House.
nWejB TIL in school I read about Nellie Bly, a female journalist in the late 1800s who got herself committed to an insane asylum to report on the conditions. She also once jumped off a ferry so she could report on the efficiency of the rescue crew!
ew1D TIL some people are allergic to water.
6wKJ TIL That the Civil War started and ended on the same mans’ (Wilmer Mclean) property, who fled his property at the sight of the battle of Bull Run only to purchase what would become known as Appomattox Courthouse