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TIL the Music Group Jethro Thull was named after a Eighteen Century British Agriculturist who invented the seed drill

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4g6g TIL that the last surviving Civil War widow didn’t pass away until 2008. She married an 86 y/o veteran when she was only 19.
PYxoe TIL Erik the Red was a Viking who was exiled from Norway for murder so he moved to Iceland but again was exiled for murder. So he took 500 men & women, founded Greenland, & declared himself chieftain.
ZX8D TIL Men competed nude in the Ancient Olympics to celebrate the achievements of the human body. Because of that married women were not allowed to watch the Olympics with death as a punishment. In Sparta which is more liberal both men and women exercised in the nude.
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