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TIL The X Games have never drug tested athletes
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TIL There is a drink popular in the Caribbean called peanut punch made with peanut butter, milk and sugar. Some think it's an aphrodisiac. In Jamaica it has white rum or stout beer for an added kick.
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TIL the Spanish once granted automatic Spanish citizenship to Irish people. Due to their belief that the Irish were a group of ancient Spanairds who left Spain with a Spanish King called Míl Espáine to settle the Island of Ireland.
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TIL the CN Tower in Toronto gets hit by lightning strikes at least 75 times a year
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TIL that victorious Romans would have a slave to whisper in their ear “you are just a man” as they proceeded though the cheering crowds, to stop their egos transcending.
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TIL 40% of Rome’s population was slaves, imported from France or Germany, indistinguishable from the regular Italian. Some senators wanted to identify them with stars. Seneca replied, “If they knew how many of us there were compared to them, we would be in danger.”