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TIL Joe Exotic was actually married 5 times in total

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wXwY TIL that the ancient Romans used urine as toothpaste, mouthwash and laundry detergent, the urine collection business was so lucrative that Emperors Nero and Vespasian imposed urine taxes.
ADd5n TIL Mithridates VI of Pontus daily ingested small doses of poison because he feared being poisoned during his reign. After defeat by Pompey in the third Mithridatic war, he tried to commit suicide by using poison. His attempt failed because he had developed immunity.
XEwAr TIL about Miles Copeland Jr., a former jazz trumpeter whose work as a CIA officer inspired the names of his sons' music ventures: Miles III started a record label, International Record Syndicate (IRS); Ian, a talent agency, Frontier Booking International (FBI); and Stewart, a drummer, The Police.
b9WQ7 TIL The second person to survive going over Niagra falls in a barrel, Bobby Leach, later died after slipping on an orange peel
x6bB1 TIL about the Chicha de Jora, a colombian drink that is a variant of the Popular maize chicha, but this is made chewing the clumps of maize and thanks to the salive enzymes, the maize is fermented in the mouth and latter is spitted to a bowl.