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TIL that Egyptian pyramid builders were paid in beer

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VBYnB TIL that the first libertarian mayor in the United States was a polygamist Mormon named Alex Joseph. After leaving the Republican Party, he ran for mayor of his commune Big Water, Utah as a Libertarian.
9wBX7 TIL Tom Morello’s mom, Mary Morello, founded an anti-censorship group, Parents for Rick and Rap in 1987. It was an opposition to the Parents Music Resource Center, which created the “Parental Advisory” stickers for explicit albums. Mary is also 101.
6Yl7 TIL: a 2012 study showed that men who treat women the same as they treat other men, are seen as overwhelmingly sexist by both men and women.
1agXW TIL Leonard Nimoy suffered from Alcoholism, and at one point began drinking covertly on the set of "Star Trek".
PYV1V TIL two weeks after South Carolina seceded from the Union New York City's Mayor proposed secession as well in order to continue its extraordinarily lucrative cotton trade with the seceded South.