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TIL that Boston Corbett, the man who killed John Wilkes Booth, was a fervent Christian who castrated himself in order to avoid the temptation of prostitutes

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BMOD TIL in their 1983 film “Monty Python’s the Meaning of Life,” the Pythons defined the meaning of life as “Try to be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try to live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations.”
M7AEa TIL there were at least nine U.S. Army colonels from Virginia at the outbreak of the Civil War. The only one who joined the Confederate Army was Robert E. Lee.
MLlB TIL a Florida woman accidentally burned down a 3500 year old cypress tree, the 5th oldest in the country, because she was smoking meth under it and lit a fire so that she could see her meth better.
l7xv5 TIL that the British grew a Great Hedge to prevent the smuggling of common salt from coastal regions in India to avoid paying the substantial "Salt Tax".