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TIL that Cleopatra claimed pickles made her beautiful

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VKA4 TIL There Is A Mural In Dublin Apologising To Sinead O'Connor For Not Believing Her Accusations Of Church Child Abuse
JYoe8 TIL in the Mongol army if one soldier ran from danger in battle he would be killed along with the nine comrades in his unit
rR0dy TIL about William Breckinridge, a captain of the Confederacy who later renounced the views that led him to fight for them and became a racial equality advocate. He also represented blacks in court as a lawyer and was even noted by a black lawyer that he had helped many blacks in their law careers.
RmjQ TIL: thatMatthew McConaughey’s brother named his son Miller Lyte and got free beer for a year.
m1V1Y TIL the proposed area of Utah was much larger, but as silver, gold and other resources were found, the federal government stripped that land away and created parts of Nevada, Wyoming and Colorado. The Feds were nervous about what the Mormons would do if they had so much money.