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TIL US President Andrew Jackson had been shot so many times people said he “rattled like a bag of marbles.”

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X0ZmQ TIL since ancient Latin lacked the letters J and U, Julius Caesar's name would have actually been either “GAIVS IVLIVS CAESAR” or “GAIVS IVLIVS CAIVS.” The standard abbreviation was “C. IVLIVS CÆSAR,” reflecting the older spelling.
JY1b4 TIL during the 2008 Beijing Olympics Michael Phelps was eating roughly ~12,000 calories a day.
lkVN TIL James Cameron took good friend Guillermo del Toro to a bank and withdrew $1 million in cash to pay the ransom for the safe return of his kidnapped father
ne79r TIL an unknown man in Norway has been shitting in golf holes for a decade
ANRJo TIL Gray Whales Mate in MMF Threeways