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TIL Vatican City leads the world in per-capita wine consumption due to its sacramental use

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9gEM TIL that the Greek mathematician Archimedes was killed during the siege of Syracuse when he refused to acknowledge his Roman captors because he was too engrossed in solving a math problem.
yQE9e TIL On Oct 30, 2005, Rosa Parks, civil rights pioneer, was mourned when her casket was placed in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol for two days. She was the first woman and the second African-American to lie in state there. She was the 31st person and the first American not a U.S. government official.
vPdkx TIL that serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer was considered a "class clown" in high school who often performed strange pranks on his classmates. In 1978, he snuck into a yearbook photo for the Honor Society of his school. His face was then blacked out from the image, giving us this photo.
m1a8p TIL During his Nashville days in the early 1970s, EddieRabbitt had a pet monkey, Jojo. Before his Rocky Mountain Music tour, the monkey bit Rabbitt, leaving his right arm in bandages.
9wboG TIL John Barker Church, brother in law of Alexander Hamilton via Angelica Schuyler, in 1799 had a duel with Aaron Burr. They both missed and Church Apologized.