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TIL that Roman gladiators and legionnaires ate a vegetarian diet consisting of 78% carbohydrates, mainly from wheat or barley

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AR4a TIL The White Stripes were sued by a reporter for using a clip from one of her interviews in a song without permission. The case was settled out of court and the reporter is now listed on Wikipedia as an additional artist that played “the world’s smallest violin” in the song.
E1VZp TIL about the Three-Fifths Compromise, where slaves were counted as 3/5 of a citizen. The Southern states wanted more seats in Congress than they might achieve with only white people, but counting them as equal would be plainly hypocritical, since slaves did no have the rights of free people.
mKop TIL that monarch butterflies seem to remember an ancient mountain that used to stand where Lake Superior is now, and they still veer around that long-gone obstacle during their migration flight across the lake.
w9M8 TIL of Anekantavada, the belief that truth and reality are perceived differently from different points of view, and no single point of view is the complete truth, yet taken together they comprise the complete truth
pYR8e TIL that Brad Pitt suffers from Prosopagnosia (Face Blindness)