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TIL According to Seneca a gladiator in training once locked himself in the toilet(the only place he was allowed to go unsupervised) and commited suicide by shoving a toilet brush down his throat

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dDYor TIL the Atlantic Pygmy Octopus drills a hole into crustacean shells in order to inject them with paralyzing venom
MgPm TIL President Ronald Reagan signed MLK Jr. day into law in 1983. At first, some states resisted observing the holiday as such, giving it alternative names or combining it with other holidays. It was officially observed in all 50 states for the first time in 2000.
GYwA5 TIL in 1709, a colonial delegation brought four Indians to London—three Mohawks and a Mahican—and presented them in London as the “Four Indian Kings” of the Iroquois. The four kings met Queen Anne, dined with nobility, attended the theater, and toured the sites.
BgX4x TIL The US military sprayed 73 million liters of Agent Orange on Vietnam and was originally called Operation Hades. US soldiers, unaware of the dangers, sometimes showered in the empty 55-gallon drums, used them to store food, and repurposed them as barbecue pits.
gMPW7 TIL that there is no blue pigmentation in blue eyes. The eyes appear blue as a result of Rayleigh scattering, the same process that makes the sky appear blue.