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TIL - According to the Dead Sea Scrolls, Goliath was 6'9", not 9'9"…

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oB59K TIL that Nero participated in the Olympics.
gMoJb TIL the first hostile aerial bombardment on U.S. soil happened in 1921 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, when white police forces took to the air to drop incendiary bombs and dynamite on the business district in the black neighborhood of Greenwood, known at the time as the "Black Wall Street."
QNjx9 TIL: After 9/11, Queen Elizabeth II Had the Band of the Coldstream Guard Play The Star Spangled Banner
LRLv TIL that the word “boycott” comes from 1880, when the Irish Land League refused to do business with a rent collector named Charles Boycott.
OG8eY TIL that Craig Ferguson, the host of The Late Late Show would rip up his blue note cards (which contained potential questions for guests) as a way of signifying that what was coming wasn't really planned. Sometimes, that brought a lot of empty riffing with a celebrity who just couldn't keep up.