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TIL Osama Bin Laden played Nintendo games while in hiding

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xVw9w TIL about Frances Cleveland. When her husband, Grover Cleveland became president in 1893, she was 21. This makes her the youngest First Lady in US history.
ZP9Q TIL that over 50 WWE wrestlers that competed in 1990s are now dead
6EAyX TIL Emperor Commodus went insane, renaming everything after himself. Rome became Commodiana, the Legionaries > Commodianae, The Roman Senate > Commodian Senate, Roman > Commodian, and every month renamed after him. Eventually, the Prefects had enough and paid a wrestler to strangle him to death.
PBan TIL the most obese state in 1995 (Mississippi) was thinner than the thinnest state in 2016 (Colorado).
Jjxj TIL that in Chicago circa. 1858, multi-story wooden-frame buildings, sometimes entire rows of them, were put on rollers, businesses kept open, and moving them to the outskirts of town was so common as to be considered nothing more than routine traffic.