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5Y1Rk TIL the girl in the iconic National Geographic photo was arrested decades later in Pakistan on charges of fraudulently obtaining national identity cards.
7bYM TIL Teddy Roosevelt said: “I wish very much that the wrong people could be prevented entirely from breeding; and when the evil nature of these people is sufficiently flagrant, this should be done. Criminals should be sterilized and feeble-minded persons forbidden to leave offspring behind them.”
yVWv8 TIL that the top mathematics student at Cambridge University is known as the Senior Wrangler. In 1880 J. J. Thomson was so confident he was #1 that he sent his servant to find out how others had ranked. When Thomson asked "Who was Second Wrangler?", he was told "You were, sir"; Joseph Larmor was #1.
A7Jn TIL that Groom Kidnapping is a phenomenon in some parts of India wherein eligible bachelors are abducted by the bride’s family and later forcefully married, to avoid heavy dowry costs.
ZpgNR TIL that the Roman emperor Vespasian did not in fact issue a tax on urinating in public latrines but instead on the distribution of urine collected from Rome's public urinals