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TIL President Roosevelt carried on an affair with the Crown Princess of Norway during World War 2

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pYEL4 TIL in the Second Catiline Conspiracy: Cicero saved Rome's republic from a coup but had to go outside due process, leading to his exile. His exile was later lifted but his actions revealed the complete lack of confidence in the court system on which the New Republic of Sulla was allegedly based.
LEap TIL 8 % human DNA is made up of ancient viruses that used to infect us
6mZZ TIL Seth MacFarlane was originally a writer and animator for classic shows like Johhny Bravo and Dexter’s Lab
kOVle TIL about Stage Coach Mary - 63 year old, gunslinging, booze drinking, cigar smoking, fist fighting freed slave - and first black woman is U.S. history to deliver the mail.
b6lyQ TIL that the Palace of Justice in Belgium has been under renovation continuously since 1984, so long that the scaffolding used for the renovation is now in need of renovation itself since it is dangerously rusty