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TIL jailers used to have keys that doubled as single-fire guns as a last resort for self defense.

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Z800B TIL Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep his head cool. He changed it every two innings.
b6YVE TIL: Eumachia was a Roman business woman and priestess, being one of the few wealthy women of the time and funded many public buildings under the practice of euergetism, which is the practice in which high status/wealthy distribute their wealth to the community. Her statue is in the Naples Museum.
wBBM TIL an Italian street dog named Fido who was found injured and nursed back to health by a factory worker still returned to his owner’s bus stop to wait for him every day for 14 years after his owner had died.
R50Zw TIL in high school, with his imposing physique and mustache, most of Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson’s classmates thought he was an undercover cop.
VMZP4 TIL in 1951 a 66 year old man wasn’t allowed to enter a 1800km (1118 miles) long bicykle race due to being to old. He showed up anyways and won the race by biking for days without sleep. He got the nickname ”Grandpa Steel”