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TIL that Marcus Aurelius is believed to have written a series of love letters to his tutor Fronto. One reading: "Farewell my Fronto, wherever you are, my most sweet love and delight. How is it between you and me? I love you and you are not here."

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J1vWB TIL: In 1952 British politician Christopher Mayhew, in a rare and 'unbroadcast' BBC Panorama special, once demonstrated the effects of mescaline hydrochloride, leading to a series of predictably comical incongruities.
oRejr TIL in 1977, Ali Maow Maalin was the last person known to have been infected with naturally occurring Variola minor small pox. He fully recovered and later became one of the 10,000 volunteers who participated in the effort to help eradicate polio in Somalia. Ali died in 2013 from malaria.
oaML TIL of a phenomenon, called Coffin Birth, where fetuses are naturally “birthed” by their recently deceased mothers.
Py6V TIL Andrew Jackson’s inauguration party at the White House was open to the public. A rowdy crowd of thousands caused major damage, and were only lured outside by bowls of alcoholic punch, which were placed on the White House lawn.
M6Yb TIL there are four bags of astronaut poop on the moon left behind from Neil Armstrong on his Apollo mission to the moon.