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TIL that Emperess Wu Zetian of the Tang is the only female Emperor in all of Chinese history.

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VMepm TIL that a sunflower maze has been planted near Fukushima. Sunflowers are believed the help soil absorb radiation and were also used following the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986.
DnOY TIL Napoleon Dynamite star Jon Heder was paid $1,000 to play the role of Napoleon. The film went on to gross over $40,000,000 in the United States alone.
WZYB TIL the word boycott derived from Charles Boycott, an agent who collected rent from Irish farms on behalf of the British. Farmers demanded rent reductions, Boycott refused and evicted those tenants. Rather than attack Boycott the Irish farmers refused to do business with him at all. Boycotting.
VrMB TIL in 2012, a woman successfully sold a Chicken McNugget on eBay for $8,100 because it looked like George Washington
1YAX TIL the Roman Emperor Gaius Caesar, better known as Caligula and famed for his madness and cruelty, was given the nickname as a child when he was dressed up in little soldier’s boots, or caligae. It effectively means “Bootykins.”