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TIL Walter Mondale is the only person to have lost a state wide election in every state.

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W7Jmd TIL Caxias do Sul, Brazil is home to a makeshift slum built specifically for stray dogs and cats housed by a animal rights group. With a population of 1000s, it mimics the conditions the country's most impoverished live in, even monetary restraints have caused problems with properly feeding them.
lKAB TIL the bear that wrestled with Will Ferrell’s body double in the movie Semi-Pro mauled and killed Stephan Miller during a routine training exercise.
rND8x TIL Marcus Aurelius' decision to waive the imperial tax on the sale of gladiators was so popular that the transcript of the entire senate debate on the law was carved in stone across the empire, an expensive and thus unique undertaking. The tax break was estimated at 30-20 million sesterces a year
4Pda TIL the “navel” in a navel orange is actually a second, conjoined twin orange within the same peel
xVJVB TIL that during the extreme heat and physical strain of some of the Formula 1 races, driver[s] can lose up to 5 kilos of weight.