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TIL There were only two groups in Sparta that could have their names inscribed in their tombstones: mothers who died giving life and soldiers who fell in battle.

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awo4y TIL That Aeropostale supplied football uniforms for UConn & Pitt in the early 2000s
p8eN TIL Thomas Jefferson’s personal Bible was a copy he re-edited himself to remove all supernatural elements, leaving only universally accepted moral teachings in the book.
gN4L TIL Domino’s Sold as Many Pizzas during OJ Simpson’s Car Chase as it did on Superbowl Sunday
5jnr TIL Richard Nixon possessed 3,700 hours of taped conversations while he was in the White House. Very few people have listened to more than a few hours of them. The tapes “go a long way toward showing Nixon’s underappreciated geopolitical genius and how he became the victim of his own emotionalism.”
wpWo TIL a monument marking where Captain James Cook was killed in Hawaii, and about 25 square feet of land around it, is owned by the United Kingdom.