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TIL all four daughters of Karl Marx were called Jenny.
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TIL: Theodore Roosevelt was seen as dangerously loud-mouthed and was given the Vice-Presidency to make sure he was politically powerless.
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TIL the neo-babylonian emperor Nebuchadnezzar II is described in the bible as displaying symptons consistent with boanthropy, a disorder in which a human believes themselves to be a bovine.
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TIL over 8 million horses died in WW1. Of those who survived, most were sent to Belgian butchers, being regarded as unfit for any other purpose.
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TIL that the phone system's three rising tones (Special Information Tone, or SIT) comes in 8 varieties that are similar but can be distinguished by electronic equipment. It was designed so equipment could identify the error, even without understanding the spoken message.
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TIL every Passover, one Arab-Israeli man buys all of Israel’s grain products, or ‘chametz,’ worth over $150 million for only $4,800. Afterwards he gives it back.