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TIL the "taste bud mapping" we learned in school has been discredited for years and is still a mystery.

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b6Jp9 TIL when the mistress of Roman Emperor Commodus found her name on a list of people Commodus wanted executed, she and a few others tried to poison him, but Commodus vomited it up, so they had his wrestling partner, who trained him for his gladiator appearances, strangle him while he was in the bath.
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