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TIL Julius Caesar wrote fan fiction of Hercules and Oedipus in his youth.

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4X4eR TIL Brandon Novak gives out his phone number on the internet to speak to strangers battling addiction. People have said he talked to them for an hour and then 20 more times over the next month.
pZL8 TIL that the bar tab of a 1787 farewell party for George Washington is still intact. “According to the bill… [The Founding Fathers] drank 54 bottles of Madeira, 60 bottles of claret, 8 of whiskey, 22 of porter, 8 of hard cider, 12 of beer, and 7 bowls of alcoholic punch”. The party had 55 attendees.
GWl7 TIL that in the 1960’s a woman lived together with a dolphin in a partially flooded house for 10 weeks as part of an experiment to teach it to speak. The lengthy experiment finally involved her masturbating the dolphin and tripping on LSD with it.
QJDNd TIL that in 1979, a South Korean man named Ko Sang-Moon was kidnapped by North Korean agents in Norway after a taxi driver mistakenly dropped him off at the North Korean embassy instead of the South Korean embassy.
oBbJL TIL that after the popularity of superhero comics waned in the late 40s, Captain America comics were rebranded as “Captain America: Commie Smasher” from 1953-1954