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TIL that while the Emperor Titus has received almost universal praise, one Roman historian dared to point out that this was likely because his reign barely lasted two years before he suddenly died.

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wLoJ6 TIL the yellow cab of NYC were started in 1907 when a businessman, outraged at being charged $5 dollars ($122 today) for a 1/4 mile horse and carriage trip, decided to start his own taxi "service in New York and charge so-much per mile
Y7vYA TIL hurricane names get reused every couple years until they are retired (typically due to a significant storm). For example - until Katrina was retired in 2005, a Katrina occurred in 1967, 1971, 1975, 1981, 1998, and 1999
kle1 TIL in 1943 Packard Motors promoted 3 blacks to work next to whites on the assembly line causing 25,000 workers to walk off the job.
1krV TIL that a police officer can be rejected from joining the force for having too high of an IQ score.
okoY TIL that during the Cold War, Chairman Mao held meetings in his swimming pool to embarrass Nikola Khrushchev, who had to wear a floatie as he couldn’t swim. Khrushchev felt insulted and the incident furthered the deterioration of relations between the Soviet Union and China.