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TIL that there is mathematical proof that we are all descendants of both royalty and a whole lot of nobodies.

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ZoVp TIL that ‘Dog Days’ of summer are actually defined as the period from July 3 through Aug. 11 when the Dog Star, Sirius, rises in conjunction (or nearly so) with the sun
j6QlR TIL that in 1501, Antonio Rinaldeschi, a Florentine gambler, was executed for flinging dung at a painting of the Virgin Mary. Apparently a cult developed around a remain of the dung because it resembled a crown.
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