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TIL that dentists existed in 2600 BC

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NXZwN TIL about Oppianicus, a Roman man who killed or ordered killed several of his relatives for power. He also killed his youngest sons because his fifth wife didn't want to be a stepmom. He tried to kill his stepson, who then prosecuted against him, resulting in Oppianicus's exile.
v1jo8 TIL one of the lost Faberge eggs from Imperial Russia was discovered in 2012 after the owner, a scrap metal dealer, struggled to sell it because prospective buyers thought he was overestimating it’s worth in gold and jewels. It was later valued at £20million.
Xpe6 TIL German immigrants in early America tried to establish Socialist Utopian communities…all failed and resulted in famine and financial collapse. Notable residents included Nathaniel Hawthorne and Ralph Waldo Emerson.
wLO08 TIL That President George Washington personally led 12,950 men to western Pennsylvania to quell the whiskey rebellion and assert the power of the federal government, one of only 2 sitting presidents to lead an army while in office, the rebels disbanded and fled.
VMwX4 TIL that elephants lack a scrotum and their testes are located internally near their kidneys. This fact, along with other embryological and palaeontological evidence, suggests that their ancestors were aquatic.