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TIL There is 97% overlap between swimmers and great white sharks in So. California beaches

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Lg40 TIL in 1933 Major General Smedley Butler proclaimed there was a Coup d'état plot against Roosevelt by the Fascist American upper class who were opposed to the New Deal. He was asked to lead half a million men to take the white house and establish a dictatorship.
KQVw TIL a Macedonian king once sent a message to Sparta: “If I win this war, you will be slaves forever.” They replied with one word: “If.” The king subsequently avoided Sparta entirely.
b9Na0 TIL that Edvard Munch's famous painting "The Scream" was painted on cardboard
d87w8 TIL the Black Death was personified by an old woman carrying a rake and a broom. If she used the rake, some would survive in between the teeth of the rake. If she used the broom the whole population of an area would die
VBGZ0 TIL Brutus the Barber recounted a tale that Andre the Giant once had an emergency BM on a flight to Tokyo. Being too big to use the toilet, the crew improvised with a trash bag for him to use in a pinch but the smell filled the cabin leading to people puking, crying and falling out of seats.