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TIL that the idea of donkeys being for democrats came after Andrew Jackson’s opponents called him a jack**s

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51k8 TIL that a string of typographical symbols (such as “@#$%&!”) used to represent an obscenity or swearword is called a “grawlix”
vrWj TIL at least 100 people have been murdered in hate crimes from members of a single White Supremacist online forum
8rN8 TIL the average recorded age at death for the slaves of the ancient Rome was extraordinarily low: seventeen and a half years (17.2 for males, 17.9 for females)
bWb9 TIL many years after Octavian agreed to Cicero’s name being placed on the proscription list, Octavian found his grandson reading a book by Cicero, he took it from him, read a bit of it, and then returned it saying: “He was a learned man, dear child, a learned man who loved his country”.
wrg7 TIL - The pencils David Letterman uses at his talk show desk have erasers at both ends. This is so no one gets injured when he throws them.