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TIL the original DickButt was handcrafted around 150B.C.-10A.D.

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PgnE TIL that literally has become an example of an autoantonym – a word with two opposite meanings
VM6xm TIL that Pope Innocent IV (1243-1254) was probably the first pope who used personal arms.
9wAbD TIL Jason Schwartzman is also a musician and created this well known song
neeBo TIL In a study of nuns (so that living conditions, histories and environmental factors were “controlled” by their life choice), it was found that those who had demonstrated high optimism in early autobiographies lived on average 10 years longer than the more pessimistic ones.
KY9rQ TIL that a year after he accidentally solved two famously unsolved statistical problems by mistaking them for homework, George Dantzig's same two proofs were accepted as his thesis; his 'unsolved problem' story loosely served as the setup for the plot of Good Will Hunting.