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TIL that scientists concluded from the lines of fossilized corals that some million years ago a year had 420 days

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QNa09 TIL that after George Harrison's death from lung cancer, his widow sued a doctor at the hospital where he received radiation therapy for allegedly forcing Harrison to listen to his son play guitar and autograph the guitar while lacking his mental faculties.
K4ER TIL a larger number of bumper stickers on a car indicates a higher likelihood of being involved in a road rage incident.
N7aE6 TIL Roman soldiers captured a group of gothic women who were masquerading as male soldiers around 3rd century AD. The women were paraded through the streets of Rome with signs that mockingly labeled them “Amazons”.
YpV1r TIL about the Cheshire Mammoth Cheese, which was a gift to Thomas Jefferson by Elder John Leland that weighed 1235 pounds, and was only made with non-Federalist cows.
VMJ58 TIL that Miami is the only major American city that was founded by a woman. Julia Tuttle, a woman from Cleveland, purchased 640 acres in present-day downtown Miami to start a new chapter in her life after her husband died.