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GybQ TIL former US Attorney General and key supporter of the Patriot Act, John Ashcroft, once lost a senatorial race to a dead guy.
8aJ5G TIL that in Norse mythology only half of the dead fallen in battle go to Odin in Valhalla. The other half go to the goddess Freyja in the meadow of Fólkvangr
Oo097 TIL that the Black Knight in Monty Python's Quest for the Holy Grail was inspired by two Roman wrestlers who were in a very intense and entangled fight. After one surrendered from pain of a broken rib an attendant picked up the winner, tapping him and saying "You won" to discover that he was dead.
loRrr TIL Shirley Temple's first acting job was in series of short film called Baby Burlesks, and in one of them she played an elite prostitute sent to influence a backwoods politician. She was 4-5 years old.
VD9p TIL Until 1735 no new metals had been discovered since prehistoric times; iron, copper, silver, gold, zinc, mercury, tin, lead & bismuth. When Georg Brandt recognised a tenth, Cobalt, he became the first ever known person to discover a metal. For thousands of years cobalt was mistaken for bismuth.