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TIL the oldest surviving Alt History work is in Book 9 of Livy's History of Rome, in which he muses about Alexander the Great turning West and invading Rome

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0wdG5 TIL that when Alice Cooper released their album "School's Out" to the public, they pranked the public by warping the record in a pair of vibrant colored (and flammable) panties
e0yJ4 TIL Benito Mussolini signed Vatican City into existence. The 1929 Lateran Treaty ended the dispute between the Italian government & the Catholic Church, which allowed the Vatican to exist as its own sovereign state and compensated the church $92 million (> $1 billion today) for the Papal states.
epxD6 TIL if space is infinite, or sufficiently large and uniform, identical instances of the history of Earth's entire Hubble volume may occur every so often, simply by chance. Physicists and Cosmologist Max Tegmark calculated that our nearest so-called doppelgänger is 10^10^115 metres away from us
9Y0ND TIL that the Apollo astronauts distinctive hopping on the moon wasn't due to the low gravity, it was because their space suits were inflexible.
P1KoV TIL out of the world's 2781 billionaires only 19 are black, 8 of them being Oprah, LeBron James, Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Jay-Z, Rihanna, Tiger Woods and Tyler Perry