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TIL The 2,000-year-old 'masturbating' Pompeii man wasn't caught in the act. He is in that position due to the contraction of limbs from the lava heat

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7rQOX TIL when Alexander the Great conquered Persia from Darius III he stole his mother. After kidnapping her, she become to devoted to Alexander, while he referred to her as “mother,” and when called on to mourn Darius III she said “I have only one son [Alexander] and he is king of all Persia.”
4Nxw TIL a Thai princess drowned to death as servants watched, because they were ordered to never touch the royals
nWBmB TIL Richard Dedekind, who worked with Georg Cantor on infinite sets, was an exceptional mathematician but he never went beyond being a high school teacher in his hometown. Cantor wanted to enter University of Berlin but was prevented from doing so as his new branch of mathematics was rejected
odRo TIL that Emenim performed the song Kim, after promising her he wouldn’t, while she was in the front row of concert. She immediately left the concert, got in a car wreck and then proceeded to slit her wrist once she made it home.
6evl TIL that speed limits in Rhode Island, Utah, and Texas are all “prima facie”, which means motorists can get out of a speeding fine if they can justify their use of excessive speed.