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TIL 171 people have vanished off Cruise liners in the last decade.

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BrBdK TIL that there was a Roman Emporer named Elagabalus, who would dress as a woman before prostituting himself in taverns, brothels, and the imperial palace. He took his charioteer, Hierocles, as his lover and wanted to be called a mistress, wife, and queen.
9wZw7 TIL of Gabe Sonnier, a man who started off as a janitor in a Louisiana elementary school until one day in 1985, when he was inspired by the then-principal to take up teaching. Gabe was 39 years old when he started studying for a teaching degree. He’s now the principal of that elementary school.
4X0pR TIL about the book “How to spot a Jap” issued to US soldiers in China during WWII. In it, they were told the Chinese are “about the size of an American”, has even teeth and walk in strides while the Japanese are buck-toothed, shuffle and look as if “their legs are directly attached to their chests”.
xbgb TIL that the rapper T.I. once talked a 24yr old jumper down from the ledge of an Atlanta skyscraper. They chatted for 5mins and were reunited on a radio show months after.
Z8Bk4 TIL a Hapax legomenon is a word or expression that occurs only once in the entire written record of a language. For example, Slæpwerigne, "sleep-weary", occurs exactly once in the Old English corpus, in the Exeter Book.