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TIL If following the USDA guidelines, you can't simultaneously meet both their potassium and sodium intakes

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Rnjw TIL Wikipedia can track the lineage of race horses as far back as their 17th century ancestors. (choose a horse to begin)
Oo5g1 TIL about Boatswain (1803-1808), Lord Byron's beloved Newfoundland dog. When he contracted rabies Byron personally nursed him despite the risk. After he died Byron wrote the poem "Epitaph to a Dog" in his honour. His wish to be buried with Boatswain was denied. The dog's tomb is larger than Byron's.
78QBX TIL about Peregrinus Proteus, a second century Greek philosopher who self-immolated at the Olympic games of 165 after reading his own funeral oration.
aGP9 TIL of Harry Thaw who killed architect Stanford White and was acquitted based on the defense of “dementia Americana,” a phenomenon that caused American men to become temporarily insane and seek revenge against those who had tainted their wives’ virtue. Thaw had married White’s former mistress.
wLlYP TIL of Perkeo, a court dwarf in the 1700s, who would drink 5-8 gallons of wine a day. This impressed the Prince of Heidelberg Charles III, who made him cup-bearer and supervisor of the largest wine barrel in the world.