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TIL Teddy Roosevelt is the only U.S. President that is confirmed to have had a tattoo

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e6kE TIL that once the Babylonians could predict when solar eclipses would occur, they would install a substitute king during this period. As they believed that these eclipses were an evil omen, this substitute king could be blamed. (He usually was killed after - of course making the omen true.)
XEoYj Today I learned that Peter Weller, the original Robocop, has a Master’s degree in Roman and Renaissance Art and is now an art historian.
MYgW TIL scientists believe MSG is perfectly safe. The MSG “myth” is based a single complaint from a scientist who once ate Chinese food, got sick and decided to blame it on the additive.
lo6JN TIL Wilma Rudolph had polio as an infant and was unable to walk properly until she was 11. For several years, her family had to massage her legs four times a day, and she had to wear a metal brace. In 1960, she became the first American woman to win three gold medals in an Olympic event.
4XDR5 TIL that there was a prostitution sting on cops where the “buyer” dressed up as a CLOWN