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TIL, that journalists and open-source intelligence enthusiasts have tracked late-night pizza orders around the Pentagon as an unofficial predictor of geopolitical events.

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W776B TIL about Abd al-Rahman. A Umayyad prince who narrowly escaped the killing of his family by the Abassid and wandered across Egypt and North Africa in exile for years before reaching Iberia and starting a kingdom that lasted for three centuries there where Muslim, Jews and Christians lived together.
epr6E TIL about Giuseppe Garibaldi II, the Australian-born grandson of the Italian unifier who also fought in the Mexican Revolution and served under Pancho Villa.
VMlQB TIL Stanford University developed Artificial Intelligence which can guess if a person is gay, based on a photo of their face, with 91% accuracy on dating sites.
ADWol TIL that Giovanni Battista Belzoni, the 6' 7" strong-man and circus performer was also the first egyptologist and a pioneer archaeologist. He discovered tombs, explored pyramids, found ancient artifacts, all while foiling assassination attempts, dodging bullets, and fighting the French army.
LkO8Z TIL Ulysses S. Grant's autobiography was sold by 10,000 agents, many of whom were former Union soldiers who canvassed the northern states while wearing their old uniforms. It was a method devised by Mark Twain, the publisher. It made a fortune for Grant's widow, who received a 75% royalty.