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TIL The ancient Romans drew penises on almost everything

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a1mM TIL when Robert Downey Jr was eight, his father offered him drugs, which led him to a long life of substance and alcohol abuse. RDJ credits Mel Gibson with helping him get sober and narcotic free.
gr77D TIL Stone Age Europeans may have practiced human sacrifice, including live burial under houses…
ne7yr TIL Eli Whitney did not make his fortune from the cotton gin, but a later invention, the milling machine. This machine allowed the North to automate many industries and stay adequately supplied during the American Civil War.
AY6g TIL Earth is struck by approximately 1 septillion asteroids daily. (That’s 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 asteroids.)
4X1Xw TIL of Project Pigeon, in which American behaviorist B.F. Skinner attempted to develop a pigeon-controlled guided bomb during World War II.