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TIL the Aztecs had penalties for being drunk which ranged from head-shaving to the death penalty.

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Eabd TIL “Town Destroyer” was a nickname given to George Washington by Iroquois Native Americans in 1753.
dDj5r TIL a Vanderbilt study estimated that roughly 25% of women and 33% of men snort when they laugh.
eGrE TIL the Austrian mathematician Kurt Godel had an obsessive fear of being poisoned, and would only eat food prepared by his wife. When she had to be hospitalized in 1977, he refused to eat at all and died weighing 65 pounds
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