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TIL the first recorded incident of "mooning" was in 80 AD. A Roman soldier showed his buttocks to Jewish pilgrims gathered in Jerusalem for Passover. This led to riots and the deaths of ten thousand people.

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wLJlP TIL that as recently as 1972, simply being outed for suffering from depression was enough to force Thomas Eagleton to step down from the US vice presidential ticket
4XEGb TIL cartographers protect their intellectual property by slipping fake streets, or even entire towns, into their maps. If the street/town shows up on another map, they know it was stolen. Dictionary writers have been known to do the same thing with fake words.
yn7X TIL the guy that ran against Hitler in the German Presidential Election of 1932 was arrested 1 year later, thrown into solitary confinement until 1944, and then shot on Hitlers order.
4kKPN TIL the first Minnesota Twins mascot was named Twinkie and only lasted two years.
Z8W54 TIL a bruin bear was found on a ledge of a California bridge. Volunteers strung a net under the bear; officials shot it with a tranquilizer dart, nudged it with a pole onto the net, lowered it to the ground & steered it into the wild. The bridge where the bear was found is called "Rainbow Bridge."