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WkLbA TIL the last words of 22nd and 24th U.S president Grover Cleveland, “I have tried so hard, to do so right.” Reported by his biographers shortly after a heart attack.
yQK4w TIL one of the oldest and dangerous sport is played in Florence and is called Calcio Storico and come from roman Harpastum. Is like a mix of rugby and MMA with traditional costumes.
BgXbK TIL that a poem written by Ed Justin in the 1980s called Pumpkinhead was the inspiration for the horror film Pumpkinhead.
wL8pY TIL about the Look-and-say sequence, an incremental pattern generated from counting the number of consecutive digits in groups of the same digit.
jNKwa TIL of Dax Cowart, a Vietnam vet who suffered devastating burns after a gas explosion in the 1970s, and who endured 14 months of agonizing treatment that he did not want. He survived, married, went to law school and continued to argue that his doctors should have allowed him to die.