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TIL Cæsar Commodus believed he was the reincarnation of Hercules and renamed Rome «Colonia Commodiana»

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RQVl TIL that 13,000 years ago, North America had a lake bigger than the Black Sea. When it finally drained it cause global sea levels to rise as much as 3 meters.
yQVbl Let’s ask Betsy Dresser, the senior vice president of research at the Audubon Center for Research of Endangered Species in New Orleans, who has raised several litters of small African wildcat clones. “Oh yes, the clones are very much wild animals with wild instincts,” she says. “They bite and scratch. You can’t handle them without gloves and nets.”
rO1e TIL Paintball guns, before the game was invented, were used to mark cows ready for slaughter and trees ready to be cut down
pydG TIL Michael Jackson, Marlon Brando, and Liz Taylor all allegedly got into a car and fled NYC after 9/11. They took turns driving and had to stop at multiple KFCs for the former Godfather star
a8V9L TIL: On January 5, 2002, Charles J. Bishop stole a Cessna 172 light aircraft and crashed it into the side of the bank of America tower. His mother filed a lawsuit against Roche Laboratories claiming that Accutane had side effects such as depression and suicidal actions.