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TIL that Roman Soldiers were not allowed to marry until the Second Century AD. Until then wives were illegal and any children were considered illegitimate.

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YpomG TIL, in 2015, brothers John and Geof Bitmead modified a Daewoo Matiz to resemble the red and yellow 'Little Tikes' car. The car cost £30,000 to build, and was put on auction for £21,500; it failed to sell.
5YRdD TIL that Billy Beane, the GM of the Oakland A's made famous through his use of "Moneyball" statistical approach to baseball, was in 2019 elected into the Baseball Reliquary Shrine of the Eternals where statistical accomplishment is not a criteria for election
0dar5 TIL That while Muhammed Ali was publicly resisting the draft for Vietnam, an activist group took advantage of security guards being distracted by his "fight of the century" with Joe Frazier to break into an FBI office and steal documents proving the FBI's illegal surveillance of Ali and many others
neDwG TIL that Michigan is bigger than Idaho and Utah, and is comparable to states like Oregon, Colorado, and even Nevada.
P5pe TIL Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer was created in 1939 by a 34 year old Montgomery Ward employee. The employee was given the task of writing a short story to give away as a marketing booklet to children during the Christmas season