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TIL that the identity of the Rubicon river crossed by Caesar is still debated

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R7mpl TIL that not only did Brittany Murphy not die of drug OD/intoxication, but her widower husband died just 5 months later in the same manner: acute pneumonia and extreme anemia. To this day no one is sure what exactly caused their deaths.
YpBZ7 TIL the CIA offered funding to artists Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and de Kooning so that their abstract work would show how free artists were in the United States compared to the rigid work of the Soviet Union.
kOkP5 TIL On Black Friday 2014, Cards Against Humanity was taken off shelves and replaced with a “Bullshit” box, for $6. Inside? “Literal feces, from an actual bull”, they said. The move - a protest against the 'buy anything' culture of Black Friday - led to 30,000 boxes of shit being sold in 2 hours flat
0dy7j TIL - the family that couldn't sleep, a family in Venice, Italy where for over 200 years many of the family members died suffering from fatal insomnia.
xQGw TIL that an e-reader packed with thousands of books is a billionth of a billionth of a gram heavier than if it were empty of data.