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TIL Augustus had one biological child, Julia. A strenuous relationship, Julia’s reputation was scandalous. She was eventually exiled from Rome for adultery. In 14 AD she died months after her father, never reconciling. Augustus called her, “his disease.”

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4XnEX TIL of the "Daughter from California" syndrome, a situation in which a long-lost distant relative arrives at the hospital at which a dying elderly relative is being treated, and insists on aggressive measures to prolong the patient's life, or otherwise challenges the care the patient is being given.
4kxb6 TIL of the Poitevin horse, a French breed that was created solely to produce mules. In the early 20th century, around 50,000 broodmares were producing 18,000-20,000 mules per year. However, by the 1990s, less than 300 Poitevin horses remained, with all of them descended from a single stallion.
M77L7 TIL about “The Open Veins of Latin America,” a seminal historical analysis on resource exploitation since the Conquistadors, and how precious metal mining for bullets and aircraft feeds the Northern hemisphere’s depletion of resources and people from the Rio Grande to the Amazon
v1lXR TIL: Jimi Hendrix was inspired to write "Purple Haze", following a dream where he could walk under water. Later, Hendrix expressed frustration at being unable to develop his ideas for the song further.
oBK18 TIL Bob Seger wrote many of his early songs to impress a girl he loved whose boyfriend was away in military service. However, the girl ultimately married her boyfriend when he came back.