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TIL Julius Caesar was the first living Roman to put his own face on a coin in February 44 BCE, a move widely seen as a sign of royal ambition.

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e0Nkg TIL if you climb to the altitude of 408 km from Earth, a person’s weight would be around 90% of what it would be on the ground. The ISS astronauts’ weightlessness is not because “space has no gravity”. Their weightlessness is due to them being in a free fall, constantly accelerating towards Earth.
VMbNB TIL former governor of Alabama George Wallace died the same day Gary Sinise won an Emmy for playing him in a movie (September 13, 1998)
e09DL TIL Alex, a talking parrot with vocabulary of around 100 words, died at age of 31, his last words being very heartwarming (More info in article!)
66Dl TIL Orville Redenbacher paid an advertising company $13,000 in 1970 to come up with a name for his popcorn company. Their advice was to call it “Orville Redenbacher”
5YAr9 TIL In 1978, two Monty Python comedians shot a scene dressed up as John Lennon and Paul McCartney and then tourists, thinking they were the Beatles, asked for their autographs, while the actual George Harrison, who they didn’t recognize, stood nearby laughing his ass off.