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TIL in AD 800, Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne, King of the Franks, as the first Holy Roman Emperor, starting a new line of Roman emperors over 300 years after the fall of the Western Roman Empire. This was a surprise to the Eastern Roman Empire, which was still around at that time.

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d8Yl7 TIL President Lyndon B. Johnson had no name for the first three months of his life. He was simply called "the baby" because his parents could not agree on a name, but one morning his mother refused to make breakfast until a name was agreed on. He was then named Lyndon Baines Johnson after a lawyer.
neayb TIL that the stomach is lined with a network of neurons, which is responsible for making us experience the "gut feeling" we get when we are nervous. There are actually over 100 million brain cells in the gut, which is as many as there are in the brain of a cat.
JYmlv TIL Murray Rothbard believed that parental rights to children should be traded as consumer goods, suggesting the creation of a "flourishing free market in children".
69DGJ TIL Grace Darling, a lighthouse keeper’s daughter, became a national heroine in 1838 for helping rescue survivors of the Forfarshire shipwreck off the coast of Northumberland.
ne059 TIL In 2013, a gold cast of Nelson Mandela's hand was sold for $31,000. Five years later, the owner sold it for $10 million.