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TIL that in Ancient Rome, the high priest of Jupiter was not permitted to touch a horse, sleep three nights outside his own bed or one night outside Rome, or look upon an army.

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ZP7p TIL That the founder of Kodak, George Eastman killed himself because he had accomplished everything he felt necessary to do and didn’t feel like waiting for his diabetes to kill him slowly
YpDRG TIL In Rockville, Maryland, "A person may not profanely curse and swear or use obscene language upon or near any street, sidewalk or highway within the hearing of persons passing by, upon or along such street, sidewalk or highway."
XEERD It depends on how big your coffin is.
R7wk7 TIL that A Hard Day's Night is the only Beatles album for which all the songs were written by John Lennon Paul McCartney--no covers, and no songs written by George Harrison or Ringo Starr
A5A7 TIL the Bell Rock, a reef in the North Sea, had been responsible for thousands of shipwrecks over the centuries, that is until 1807 when an engineer began the “impossible” construction of a lighthouse on the reef itself. Ever since its completion, the Bell Rock hadn’t claimed a single human life.