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TIL that the Roman Emperor Nero castrated and married a young boy, since he had an appearance to his deceased wife

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8eNaX TIL the CIA considered making a deepfake video of Saddam Hussein “cavorting with a teenage boy” in an effort to destabilize the country before the US invasion.
Z8JmQ TIL about the loneliest man in the world - an uncontacted tribesman in Brazil who is the only remaining member of his tribe - dubbed the "Tanaru Isolated Indian". Remaining members of the tribe were massacred or wiped out by disease.
XELmR TIL the Appalachian Mountains were once part of a mountain range called the Central Pangean Mountains, which were created when the supercontinent Pangea was formed about 335 million years ago. Other mountains that were once part of that range are now in Africa and Scotland.
nW40G TIL: Button-Down and Button-Up dress shirts are 2 different things, and the terminology is referring to whether the collar is buttoned down to the shirt (or not)
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