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TIL the USA has the 2nd oldest constitution in the world (San Marino is #1)

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6xkw TIl that Alboin, King of the Lombards took his wife Rosamund as a spoil of war after he killed her father in War. At one point he made her drink from her father’s skull, which he kept as a trophy and fashioned into a mug, telling her to “drink merrily with your father.” She had him assassinated.
NXk9J TIL that American Saxophonist John Coltrane is a venerated saint.
pY1GG TIL that the natural log was discovered way earlier than the discovery of the constant e, meaning that when people used it they didn't actually know what base they were using
j6NkM TIL that the Host of the famous tv show America’s Most Wanted, John Walsh, became an advocate for missing children after his 6 year old son was abducted and brutally murdered in 1981
G44Q TIL Ken Kesey (Author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest) volunteered for MKUltra experiments involving LSD and other psychedelic drugs as a student, and inspired him to promote the drug outside of the experiments, which influenced the early development of hippie culture.