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TIL: James Earl Jones drove cross-country and used Darth as his handle on the CB radio. The truck drivers would really freak out

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1aPP TIL an ancient Roman poem was deemed so explicit that a full English translation was not openly released until the late twentieth century. The offending line? “I will sodomize you and face-fuck you”.
QGWL TIL the Catholic Church considers superstition to be a sin.
m1VZv TIL in 1991 Sacramento Kings rookie Lionel Simmons missed 2 games due to developing tendinitis in his right wrist and forearm due to playing too much Nintendo Game Boy
8a74V TIL that Sen Daniel Inouye lost his arm in WWII while holding a grenade. He pried the still-live grenade out of his severed hand, used it to kill a German solider, then kept shooting with his one remaining arm.
ne8MB TIL about Mary Mallon, an asymptomatic carrier of typhoid, who spread it in New York city in the 1900s. Dr. George Soper discovered every establishment she worked in as a cook had an outbreak of typhoid and warned her to wash her hands but she ignored him and continued to spread it all over the city