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TIL Thomas Jefferson became interested in Indian burial mounds near his Virginia home and decided to excavate them and record his findings. His use of trenching and stratigraphy make it the first Archaeological dig in North America

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VD64 TIL Karl Marx’ final words were “Last words are for fools who haven’t said enough!”
j6MZn TIL like "R.I.P." many ancient Romans had "NFFNSNC", non fui, fui, non sum, non curo, inscribed on their graves meaning “I was not; I was; I am not; I do not care”. A epicurist philosophy.
pYAn4 TIL It’s likely that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt never had polio. Studies have suggested that Guillain–Barré syndrome caused his paralysis, and it was misdiagnosed as polio.
Dede TIL that when gnats swarm around a seemingly random point in the air, they are actually having an orgy.
b6YoQ TIL nutmeg and mace come from the same fruit of the same tree