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TIL 4 US Presidents were male cheerleaders.

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GYPWj TIL that when lava gets erupted at the mid-ocean ridge axis it cools and turns into hard rock. As it cools it becomes permanently magnetized in the direction of the Earth’s magnetic field.
JYK6V TIL President James Garfield could write Latin with one hand and Greek with the other hand simultaneously
dD7y9 TIL an autograph Beethoven manuscript was missing for 115 yrs until a librarian at a seminary in Philadelphia stumbled across it in 2005. It contains annotations by Beethoven which provide insight into his thought processes in the months before his death when he was deaf. It was sold for £1.1 milion
8dk4 TIL of the Sakai incident, where samurais killed 11 french sailors, only to be condemed to ritual disembowelment themselves.
PY5wn TIL, Andy Warhol made an adaptation of A Clockwork Orange in 1965. The film, "Vinyl", is about Victor, who spends his time lifting weights, dancing and torturing people before being arrested.