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TIL Marcus Aurelius' decision to waive the imperial tax on the sale of gladiators was so popular that the transcript of the entire senate debate on the law was carved in stone across the empire, an expensive and thus unique undertaking. The tax break was estimated at 30-20 million sesterces a year

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a8Po TIL During the filming of a scene in the movie Leon: The Professional involving all of the police cars on the street, a man ran from a store he had just robbed. When he encountered the movie set by accident, he saw all of the “police” and gave himself up to a bunch of uniformed extras.
e0oEg TIL Some of the first aerial photographs of Earth were taken by pigeons - the drones of the 20th century. A technique invented in 1907 by Nebronner in Germany, they were used in both world wars and later by the CIA
rj0d TIL about the Treaty of Watertown, the first foreign treaty signed by the United States, establishing a military alliance with Wabanaki First Nations; To this day, Wabanaki citizens of Canada are allowed to join the U.S. military
GA155 TIL that a group of 25 people could maintain their energy balance for 60 days - eating one mammoth, 16 days - eating a deer, but only half a day eating another human.
b6L4 TIL that Martin Luther wrote a 65,000 word antisemitic treatise called “On the Jews and Their Lies,” which states that Jews are “full of the devil’s feces…which they wallow in like swine,” and that their synagogue is “an incorrigible whore and an evil slut.”