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TIL that Shakespeare is credited with creating the name Jessica in The Merchant of Venice

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0mBL TIL that Jesus was described as a short, bald, hook-nosed, ugly man without a beard by all his apostles. His European features were actually modeled after Cesare Borgia, Pope Alexander VI’s murderous son.
oBwrW TIL Sylvester H. Roper invented what may have been the first motorcycle. He died when he fell off his invention while racing riders on normal bicycles. The cause of death was found to be heart failure, although it is unknown if the crash was the cause of it, or if his heart failed before the crash.
oPa8 TIL that soccer makes more money than football, basketball, baseball, golf, tennis and hockey combined.
69gdZ TIL about Baltimore Jack. A 20 year old virgin gorilla, who captured so much attention that Hugh Hefner personally flew him to AZ on the Playboy Jet to get laid.
LGbv TIL, Ozzy Osborne had his genome sequenced to better understand how he’s still alive after years of hard drug and alcohol abuse. “There’s really no plausible medical reason why I should still be alive. Maybe my DNA could say why”.