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TIL that "Julie; or, the New Heloise" was the best-selling novel of the 1700s. Some readers were so obsessed that they could not accept that the book was fiction. Rousseau, the author, said that so many women offered sex to him that he could have slept with any aristocratic woman had he wanted to.

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Oo8M1 TIL that according to one legend, the funeral escort of Genghis Khan killed anyone and anything that crossed their path in order to conceal where he was finally buried. After the tomb was completed, the slaves who built it were massacred, and then the soldiers who killed them were also killed.
5YY4p Either way, both are gross.
r9rx TIL Australia has over 10,000 beaches. You could visit a new beach everyday for over 27 years!
OoAW7 TIL that Karl Berg found after recording parrots, that parent parrots name their children and those names are used through life.
xVywg TIL Tyler Perry almost committed suicide to be rid of his father's beatings, changed his name so he wouldn't be associated with his father. Then, after his mother died, Tyler got a paternity test which proved, the man who raised him wasn't his biological father.