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TIL The last king of Rome was named Superbus

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x6aLk TIL that some victims of the Hammond Circus Train Wreck 1918 were so badly burned, that they were wrongly thought to be African-American train porters.
0dNgA TIL about the tragic life of the man who performed the “Free Bird” guitar solo, Allen Collins. After surviving the 1977 plane crash, his wife Kathy later died of a hemorrhage, and in 1986, he got into a car crash which left him paralyzed and killed his girlfriend. He then died at 37 from Pneumonia.
BrgWe Hummingbirds are the hungriest birds in the world, burning through energy extremely fast. According to Nat Geo grantee Anusha Shankar, a human would have to eat 300 hamburgers just to match the equivalent of what hummingbirds consume to survive every day.
4kVaJ TIL: Sperms were thought to move by wiggling their tails side-to-side, like eels, for 350 years. But research shows that they roll as they move forward like a spinning top.
69Npm TIL there are only two elected heads of state who have given birth while in office. The first was Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in 1990, and the second was New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern in 2018. Both gave birth to a girl at both gave birth at the age of 37.