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TIL Ronald Reagan was a lifeguard during high school and saved 77 people’s lives. Without a single fatality.

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E1Dm0 TIL in 1972 George Carlin was arrested in Milwaukee for a stand-up comedy bit about seven obscene words: Shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker and tits. The judge ruled in his favor, setting a precedent that ushered in the era of hardcore 1970s comedy.
m185p TIL about "grave wax" which is formed by a chemical reaction that turns the fat in your thighs and butt to a soap-like substance after a decade in a coffin.
6Ew67 TIL: Cleopatras' fame as a beautiful seductive master was entirely made by Octavian as a way of explaining how this foreign queen managed to seduce two of Rome's most powerful men, while being described as a beauty, she was best known for her intelligence and charm.
nRdB TIL at a ‘The Who’ concert in 1969, a man rushed the stage and tried to take the microphone. Roger Daltrey punched him in the face, and Pete Townshend kicked him in the crotch. The man was actually a plain-clothes policeman trying to warn of a large fire next door. Townshend was later arrested
KENa TIL That a Galapagos tortoise that died in 2006 at Steve Irwin’s zoo was originally owned as a pet by Charles Darwin in 1835.