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TIL About James Arthur Ray, an Oprah-endorsed motivational speaker who was worth $10 million when he killed three people in a sweat lodge. After 20 months in jail he was released and went right back to the same career

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MeyXA TIL women and non-whites had the right to vote in New Jersey between 1776 and 1807 as the state constitution made no specifications of race or gender requirements, simply stating that "all inhabitants" with at least £50 could vote.
8a7vL TIL Pete Conrad (3rd Man on Moon) to prove a journalist wrong who thought the government told the astronauts what to say while on the moon bet her $500 dollars and said, "Whoopie! Man, that may have been a small one for Neil, but that's a long one for me." According to him, he never got that $500.
yp0a TIL that in the first study to show hormonal bonding between humans and another species, it was found that staring into your dog’s eyes causes a rise in oxytocin - the same hormone that bonds human mothers to infants.
ADYwn TIL that due to tension between Pixar and Disney over whose film it really was, Toy Story had two premiers, one hosted by Disney and one hosted by Steve Jobs. Disney invited actors and other Hollywood celebrities, Jobs invited people from the tech industry.
OGZ9g TIL Catherine Parr, the last wife of Henry VIII, was the first woman to publish an original work under her own name, in English, in England. After publishing her first book anonymously, she published Prayers or Meditations under her own name in 1545, during her time as Queen consort.