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TIL that the Captain of the HMS Beagle nearly rejected Charles Darwin as a passenger on the basis that the shape of Darwin’s nose indicated a lack of determination

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epag5 TIL Andrew Jackson gave his 21-year-old niece the role of First Lady when his wife died. She was praised for the food and alcohol she served during her tenure.
NgbP TIL the Quartermaster on Pirate ships could veto the captain’s decisions whenever the ship was not chasing a prize or engaged in battle
5wrr TIL Mozart composed the overture to his opera “Don Giovanni” the morning of the premiere
16KOP TIL that when a celebratory dinner in honour of recent Nobel Peace Prize winner Martin Luther King Jr. did not garner enough support in his native Atlanta, J. Paul Austin, CEO of Coca-Cola, threatened to pull his business out of the city - within two hours of this announcement tickets were sold out.
pAMN TIL of HTTP 451 - a computer network code similar to 404 page not found - which tells a user if the content is legally blocked. It was named after the book Fahrenheit 451, where books are banned.