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TIL Augustus Caesar is estimated at having a net worth of $4.6 trillion because he “personally owned all of Egypt”

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AKyd TIL that in 1914 there was an all Chinese baseball team that would tour America playing baseball. Their record for 1914 was 96 wins 61 lost and 4 tied
epDw4 TIL that a "dale" is a valley in an otherwise hilly area while a "glen" is a secluded and narrow valley.
9DyG TIL Sir Adrian de Wiart served in the Boer War, WWI, WWII, and was shot in the face, head, stomach, ankle, leg, hip, and ear. He survived 2 plane crashes, tunnelled out of a POW camp, and bit off his own fingers when a doctor wouldn’t amputate. About WWI, he wrote, “Frankly I had enjoyed the war.”
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