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TIL In Ancient Ireland, subjects would routinely suck on their king’s nipples to demonstrate their submission.

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7r9jL TIL: The State name "Idaho" was a made up word by a politician in 1861. He lied and tried to pass it off as a Native American word.
oRYlL TIL in 1947, Kurt Godel discovered a "loophole" in the US constitution that would permit American democracy to be turned into a dictatorship.
1nQ4 TIL that making memes in Australia is illegal.
xV4J7 TIL that Betty White's television career has gone on for so long that her first job was in 1939 and involved singing songs on one of the first experimental TV channels
BAKL TIL that Walt Disney loved trains since he was a teenager and occasionally donned an engineer’s outfit and drove the Disneyland railroad’s locomotives when they were pulling trains with passengers on board.