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TIL that Patrick Stewart lost all of his hair at age 18 and thought that no woman would ever be interested in him again

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R7Lpw TIL in 2009, a 14-year-old boy showed up at a Chicago police station in uniform and worked 5 hours of a shift. He allegedly got a police radio, ticket book and rode with an officer for several hours before his identity was realised. He knew procedure due to a "police explorer" program he’d gone to.
7rXdP TIL that Roman soldiers (that survived battle) actually had longer lives than the average Roman citizen due to the implementation of medical units in their legions.
xwnk TIL the U.S. spends 2 billion dollars a year on mayonnaise. More than twice as much as they spend on ketchup.
0dw6R TIL about the Banquet of Blood, an 8th century banquet during which the Abbasids wiped out 80 members of the preceding Umayyads. The dying and dead were covered with a leather carpet and the meal proceeded.
MB1b TIL that John Lasseter tried to pitch the idea of a fully computer-animated film to Disney, but the idea was rejected and Lasseter was fired, after that he went on and co-founded Pixar.