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TIL sailing ships around Iberia have been the subject of coordinated Orca attacks beginning in 2020.

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9Yd6r TIL President John Adams drank a hard cider every morning at breakfast to settle his stomach
Q6AL TIL that, unlike most bronze sculptures of Roman emperors, the equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius was not melted down during the Middle Ages because Europeans of that time thought it was a statue of Constantine, the first Christian emperor of Rome.
p6yN TIL: Dwight Eisenhower smoked 4 packs a day, but quit cold turkey and never smoked again after being advised to quit. He attributed his success to developing a scornful attitude toward smokers who couldn’t quit, saying, “I nursed to the utmost my ability to sneer at them.”
Ky54 TIL the “skin” on the Statute of Liberty is only 2.4mm thick. About the thickness of two pennies.
QJwma TIL that Danish conceptual artist Kristian Hornsleth paid 340 people in a village in Uganda to change their first names to Hornsleth. He paid them by giving each one of them either a goat or a pig