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TIL King Peggy is a secretary in DC who was made “King” of her village in Ghana, kept her job and is massively improving life for her subjects after cleaning up corruption

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kJBm TIL That when the University of Oregon Ducks play the Oregon State Beavers, they play for “The Platypus Trophy”
e5Pn TIL that the actor who played Detective Angel Batista (David Zayas) in the show Dexter, was an actual police officer in the NYPD for 15 years.
wLgbP TIL Jupiter shrinks about 2 cm (0.78") each year. When it was first formed, Jupiter was much hotter and was about twice its current diameter
JNEj TIL Thrasyllus of Mendes commented on Caligula saying he had “no more chance of becoming emperor than of riding a horse across the Bay of Baiae”. After he became emperor, Caligula constructed a temporary bridge across the Baiea using ships as pontoons and rode his horse across.
xVKm5 TIL two students in a school performance of Sweeney Todd had their throats cut because the school supplied an actual straight razor for the throat slitting scene.