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TIL Seahorses are notoriously bad swimmers, so much so that the dwarf seahorse is considered the slowest fish in the world.

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JNEj TIL Thrasyllus of Mendes commented on Caligula saying he had “no more chance of becoming emperor than of riding a horse across the Bay of Baiae”. After he became emperor, Caligula constructed a temporary bridge across the Baiea using ships as pontoons and rode his horse across.
akV9 TIL America has spent $4 Trillion on the Iraq War
nW5XP TIL we don't know how or why Writer's Cramp occurs
AN7Vo TIL that Ikea acquired TaskRabbit in 2017
l7YJG TIL JFK's sister, Rosemary, was subjected to a prefrontal lobotomy when she was 23 years of age by request of her father. It left her incapacitated and unable to speak intelligibly. The Kennedy family did not explain her absence until 1961, where they said it was on account of "mental retardation".