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VKP0 TIL that doctors before the eleventh century would drink the urine of their patients to determine whether or not they had diabetes. A sugary taste indicated the person was diabetic.
PpnZ TIL an American raised an army of 60 men and successfully lead a conquest of Nicaragua and made himself president.
Wk5k8 TIL about the italian revolutionary Nicola Bombacci. He has been the first italian to meet the Russian Bolsheviks, one of the founders of the Italian Communist Party in 1921, and one of the best friends and mentors of Benito Mussolini, with whom he was hanged at the end of WWII.
5VDXQ TIL about mulled wine, a centuries-old tradition of heating red wine with spices and sometimes fruits. It dates back to ancient Rome, where spiced wine was used to preserve it during winter, and it remains a popular holiday drink in many European cultures.
YMZd TIL Martin Luther King and Anne Frank were born in the same year. If alive, they both would be 84