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TIL roman emperor Nero paid for a young boy, married him, castrated him and dressed him like a girl at public events.

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QJXNe TIL Disney changed the name of their project "Basil of Baker Street" to The Great Mouse Detective", causing Disney animators to pass around a joke memo blandly renaming old Disney classics. It reached the CEO of Disney, who was furious and demanded to know who wrote the memo. No one squealed.
xBab TIL that there is an entirely independent food chain that lives deep in the ocean, that is effectively independent of sunlight, and these life forms are the leading candidates for extra-terrestrial life.
j6rJM TIL of the lituya bay mega tsunami in 1950’s Alaska. The waves reached for a time a height of over 1,700 feet tall!
5Y5Gp TIL that Normandy could have been lined with tanks on D-Day if Hitler wasn’t asleep.
rNy0x TIL an orangutan in Indonesia was seen using a plant paste to heal a large wound on his cheek - this is the first time a creature in the wild has been recorded treating an injury with a medicinal plant