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TIL That Cato the Younger, Rather Than Live In a World Ruled By Caesar, Decided to Rip Out His Own Bowels Infront of His Servants and Family.

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6E1Jl TIL Salvador Dali was attracted to Hitler "“I often dreamed of Hitler as a woman. His flesh, which I had imagined whiter than white, ravished me…”
p5M8 TIL the Red Hand is the symbol of Ulster because according to myth a boat race was held to determine the king - first to touch the shore wins the crown. One potential king saw he was losing, so cut off his hand (covering it red with blood) and threw it on the shore, thus winning the race.
6E9rl TIL the German Parliament has the grafiti "I f--k Hitler in the ass" preserved as a historic monument on one of its walls
0wY4y TIL: Rural Indiana lore has long claimed that much of the world's first-ever Ferris wheel was recycled and made into a bridge by farmer J.D. Dunn. Dissenting opinion says the salvaged metal came from the world expos of either 1893 or 1904.
JoP4 TIL the September 11 terror attacks on the WTC released a dust cloud of toxic asbestos fibers across Manhattan. An estimated 410,000 people have been exposed. It is believed lung cancer and mesothelioma cases in the city will reach a peak in the year 2041 (four decades after 9/11)