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

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b9eL7 TIL of the Harlem Hellfighters (369th Infantry Regiment) who were assigned to fight with the French Army in WWI because US commanders refused to accept them for combat duty with white American troops - They went on to become the most decorated American unit of the war.
pY504 TIL: The codes which allow the President of the U.S. to authorize a nuclear attack are printed on a plastic card nicknamed "the biscuit." The president is supposed to carry the biscuit at all times.
QBLa TIL that when the atomic bomb was first tested, one of the physicists, Enrico Fermi, had a wager as to “whether or not the bomb would ignite the atmosphere, and if so, whether it would merely destroy New Mexico or destroy the world.”
DJWV TIL Every year the British Medical Journal publishes an issue full of joke science, like one paper that said men die before women because they are stupid. But years later these articles are cited by scientists as real, and this is causing a lot of problems.
rYpM TIL Ed Asner has won more Emmy Awards for performing than any other male actor