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TIL almost no palm trees are native to Southern California. They were used as a marketing ploy to transform Los Angeles for a cow town to “semi-tropical”

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D0gv TIL when Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, commander of the all-black 54th Regiment during the American Civil War, died at Fort Wagner, he was stripped and buried with his men as an insult. His father, however, proclaimed that he was proud to know that his son rests with his brave and devoted soldiers.
R5dN1 TIL During an ecumenical council meeting between 1414 to 1418, Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund made a Latin grammatical error by conjugating "schisma" as feminine. When a cardinal corrected him, he replied "I am king of the Romans and above grammar." He was nicknamed "Super Grammaticam" by historians.
BgJ1b TIL when you lose fat, it leaves your body through breath, pee, and sweat.
rDwd TIL almost half of all vetoes ever cast since the UN Security Council’s inception came from its member USSR/Russia
lorna TIL Seneca once sat through the half time at a gladiatorial fight, the time when the bloodiest spectacles usually took place. He expected staged fights with blunt swords but instead described the specacle as "plain butchery", and adviced his friend never to attend the games