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TIL: During Super Bowl 13, Cowboy's Thomas "Hollywood" Henderson used liquid cocaine while playing.

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4J7N TIL Cambyses II of Persia used cats to fight a battle. Against the Egyptians in the battle of Pelusium in 525 BC he ordered his men to paint cats on their shields and brought 100’s of cats to his front lines. The Egyptian archers refused to fire on the cats as injuring one was punishable by death.
v1xkx TIL that the initial prints of the painting "Under the Wave off Kanagawa" (AKA The Great Wave) had a pink sky, however, due to light exposure damaging many of the prints, the pink has faded away
pdvQ TIL 400 TSA agents have been arrested for theft of passenger items while not one terrorist has been caught.
7rGl7 TIL George Washington warned against political parties in his farewell address
rRMPW TIL that Safety Beach near Melbourne, Australia was previously called Shark Bay due to the presence of many sharks . The name was changed in an attempt to attract tourists the area as they had previously feared swimming in a place called "Shark Bay".