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TIL Whiskey is one of the cheapest and best painkillers known to man

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wY67 TIL according to Julius Caesar’s will, if Octavian had died or refused his inheritance, his second listed heir would be Brutus, the man who murdered him.
9YkdQ TIL Pearl Jam's song Jeremy is based on the real-life classroom suicide of Jeremy Wade Delle of Texas, who was released from a mental hospital and sent back to school -- reportedly, once his insurance money ran out he was deemed "cured" .
xVLxk TIL The Outsiders was written by a girl in high school, because she was unsatisfied with the YA books available at the time.
vQoB TIL there was a group of raider colonies in ancient Egypt who terrorized the Mediterranian coast, that has gone relatively unidentified to this day. The are collectively known as the Sea Peoples, and according to Ramesses II, no one knew how to fight against them or could withstand them.
R5g99 TIL Hemingway cats carry the polydactyl gene and can produce six-toed kittens