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TIL that Dr Dre has beaten a couple women. Years ago he publicly beat a female reporter at a party while his bodyguard held the crowd back. He also beat his ex girlfriend while they were together.

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b69p7 TIL President Rutherford B. Hayes remembered in the US mostly for being the first president to lose the popular vote and win the electoral vote, is remembered very fondly in Paraguay for his help in settling a territorial dispute that ensured "its survival as a country"
0d0B5 TIL the tallest candidate wins the majority of US presidential elections
164g4 TIL that in the 19th century, massive riots occurring in Amsterdam had to be violently put down by the military. The riots were started because the police stopped people from playing a game called “eel pulling” where you pull the head off of a hanging eel while sailing down the canal on a boat
NDVQ TIL of French diplomat and spy to England a Russia Chevalier d'Éon. Once retired, he revealed that he had actually been a woman. She was henceforth made to wear gender appropriate clothing for the rest of her life. When she died, they found out she was actually a man. He was double crossdressing.
vPg6B TIL of Stubbins Ffirth. While in school he theorized yellow fever was not contagious, and was spread by heat and stress. He poured blood, vomit, and urine of the infected into his eyeballs and cuts and did not become sick, believing his theory to be true. It was later shown to be spread by mosquitos