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TIL that the Roman emperor Claudius wrote a now lost book on the art of playing dice.

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X0gyD TIL physicist Ludwig Boltzmann also taught philosophy and his lectures on the subject became so popular that the Austrian Emperor invited him for a reception. He suffered from bipolar disorder and died by suicide at 62. His tombstone bears the inscription of his own entropy formula: S = k*log W.
6Emrl TIL When Andrew Johnson tried to fire his Secretary of War Stanton, Stanton refused to leave and locked himself in his office for weeks, refusing to let his successor in.
G8bG TIL the 1945 Food and Nutrition Board Paper often quoted statement “humans require roughly 2.5 liters (8 glasses) per day” is only ½ of the full statement. The other half was “we get most of the fluid we need from food and other beverages.”
awmmM TIL: There's a skyscraper with a Ferris wheel built in. The first-of-its-kind ride is mounted over 300 feet above street level. Plans for the project fell through and the building currently stands empty.
YlZG TIL Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi is the most translated fiction, non-religious book of all time