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TIL Teddy Roosevelt had his family crest tattoed across his chest

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78GXP TIL Tattooed individuals were experimentally found to be more short-sighted and impulsive than the non-tattooed
oRy8L TIL that the 18th century Badminton Cabinet is the most expensive piece of furniture ever sold at $36.7 million (2004). It is a Florentine ebony chest, inlaid with hard and semiprecious stones commissioned in 1726 by Henry Somerset, 3rd Duke of Beaufort, at the age of 19
KOg1w TIL The eruption of Vesuvius in 79CE destroyed the city of Pompeii, and buried its library in ash. Texts from that library are now being read for the first time in two thousand years.
epajJ TIL John von Neumann was the first to use the term "singularity" to refer to a hypothetical point in time at which technological growth becomes uncontrollable and irreversible, resulting in unforeseeable consequences for human civilization. Many academics dispute the plausability of a singularity.
7ro9Z TIL about a Vanishing Temple in India that vanishes twice a day. Due to high tide, the temple gets completely submerged in water, and then later reappears at low tide.