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Today I learned Jimi Hendrix had synesthesia; He could literally see the music

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e06B6 TIL that, of the first 15 Roman Emperors, only one was heterosexual. The list of bisexual emperor includes famous names like Augustus, Trajan and Marcus Aurelius.
Mwyb TIL Lexington Kentucky accepts canned food as payment for parking fines to feed the homeless.
XE5lQ TIL that the Dow Jones Industrial Average will continually rise and break new records because the Dow ignores inflation and is heavily curated, meaning underperforming companies are periodically removed from the index and replaced by companies that are performing better.
oR1Xo TIL that the long s, written as ſ but pronounced the same way as the letter s, was used in written English until the early 19th century.
Exlx TIL that Gandhi advocated Great Britain to surrender to Hitler and Mussolini. “If these gentlemen choose to occupy your homes, you will let them… you will allow yourself, man, woman and child, to be slaughtered.”