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TIL China had what is believed to be the first libertarian intellectual, Lao-tzu. He was a personal acquaintance of Confucius and believed government’s primary function was “inaction.”

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VBQdD TIL during an 12 year period from 1822 to 1833, four future US Presidents would all be born within the state of Ohio - Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, and Benjamin Harrison
v1jl4 TIL Quebec banned ads for toys and fast food aimed at children under 13, resulting in lowered childhood obesity rates.
NXoe TIL that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle tried to enlist when WWI broke out at the age of 55 — “I am 55 but I am very strong and hardy, and can make my voice audible at great distances.”
nbGP Today I learned that the spikes at the end of Stegosaurus’s tail are called “thagomizers” because of a Far Side comic, published in 1982, that featured a cave man pointing to a diagram of a Stegosaurus tail with the caption “Now this end is called the Thagomizer–after the late Thag Simmons.”
EjW7 TIL before wolves evolved into dogs, they worked together with humans hunting game. Wolves were superior trackers but humans superior killers, so wolves would lead humans to prey and would get some of the meat as reward.