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TIL the highest earning athlete of all time was a Roman charioteer named Gaius Appuleius Diocles. Adjusted, he earned approximately $15 billion in prize money alone.

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A7ko TIL Inventor of James Bond and all around bad ass ex-spy, Ian Fleming, also wrote the famous children’s book “Chitty-Chitty Bang Bang”, later adapted to screen by fellow ex-bad ass spy, Roald Dahl. Both served in the same British intelligence agency.
na5Y TIL Malala Yousafzai titled her book, “I am Malala” as an act of defiance against the soldier who shot her for attending school. The last thing she remembered hearing was him asking, “Which one of you is Malala?”.
Mjna TIL the once revered Tibetan Mastiff went from a status symbol to hot pot ingredient in China
j6GmQ TIL about the United States of Europe, a hypothetical scenario of European integration leading to the formation of a sovereign superstate (similar to the USA), organized as a federation of the member countries of the European Union (EU).
nWm77 TIL in 1972 US Senator Thomas Eagleton was forced to withdraw as a Presidential runningmate because he had sought treatment for depression