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TIL Stalin’s birth name was Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili

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NmR6 TIL Romans kept track of the years by naming them after the two consuls that year (e.g. the consulship of Vinicius and Haterius) When Julius Caesar essentially ruled alone during his “co-consulship” with Bibulus, Romans joked by referring to that year as the consulship of Julius and Caesar.
GZJJ TIL that in 1962, Winston Churchill became the first ever Honorary Citizen of the United States.
R7Za8 TIL Graham crackers were invented to help curb masterbation
OG8VR TIL that match fixing got so out of control in Canadian soccer that one pro match ended early after the home team’s attempts to score an own-goal were repeatedly thwarted by the away team
OoGae TIL that pharmaceutical company Aventis stopped production of a cure for sleeping sickness, a lifesaving drug for millions of Africans, between 1995-2001 because it wasn’t making enough profit. Instead the product was marketed in the West as women’s facial hair removal cream.