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TIL Russian Czar Alexander I, was so handsome, that Napoleon once remarked, “If he were a woman, I’d make him my mistress.”

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lo97K TIL African dodger (or Hit the Coon or Hit the N***** Baby) was a carnival game played in the US, in which an African-American man would stick his head through a curtain, and try to dodge objects, such as eggs or baseballs, thrown at him by players. It was played until the 1950s.
5x69 TIL 15 human feet wearing shoes have washed up on the shores of the Pacific Northwest since 2007.
167oD TIL Florida Natural orange juice is no longer "Not from concentrate"
rD0w TIL That during the height of the cold war, Neil Armstrong’s final task on the moon was to place memorial items honoring fallen Russian cosmonauts.
X07BD TIL Bull Palette is an Ancient Egyptian greywacke, cosmetic palette from ca. 3200-3000 BC showing a bull overpowering an enemy, named-fortified-cities, war-scenes, a collection of deities supporting the war-scenery-(on standards).