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TIL Taylor Swift has a species of millipede named after her

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4WAg TIL that before 1995, scientists believed that rogue waves were nothing more than sailors’ myths.
eWe4 TIL that Claudius was the only one of the first 15 Roman emperors not to take a male lover. Others considered him strange for only being attracted to women
VM0Rk TIL that an escaped slave of George Washington, Oney Judge lived her life as a fugitive in New Hampshire and provided historians the most detailed account of slavery at Mount Vernon
OGaXX TIL that when the UK stopped airing TV due to WWII, the last thing to air was a Mickey Mouse cartoon.
8D5G TIL There’s a horse named Potoooooooo because according to legend, the stable boy misheard his name “Potato” as “Pot-8-o”, and the stable master was like “eh”