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TIL Randy Poffo, aka Macho Man Randy Savage, played for the Cincinnati Reds in the 70s

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m1r1R TIL that when Napoleon surrendered after Waterloo he assumed he would be allowed to see out his exile comfortably as a foreign monarch in Britain, writing to the Prince Regent to ask "for a country house ‘about ten or twelve leagues from London – a big enough house to accommodate all my suite’."
X0KmE TIL that Egyptian mummies were stolen and sold in Europe as medicine. As late as 1924, Merck listed “Mumia vera aegyptica” at 12 gold marks per kilogram, which is about $500 per kilogram in today’s money.
R7rl4 TIL inoculation was introduced to America in 1706 by an West African slave named Onesimus, who taught his owner Cotton Mather how his parents inoculated him as a child. in 1721, Mather used this method to successfully combat a smallpox outbreak in Boston.
MeYOm TIL It is Illegal in the US to Grow Wheat in Your Backyard.
R7MNw TIL an MP3 player called "iBeat Blaxx" had to be rebranded after causing controversy