FACT OF THE DAY

February 21 2021


Jimmy Connors and fiancée Chris evert after Wimbledon in 1974.


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In Ancient Rome, the punishment for killing one's father was the death penalty, consisting of being sewn up in a sack along with a viper, a dog, and a cock.
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