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TIL in 2009 a Russian robber broke into a hair salon, was beaten by its black-belt owner and kept as a sex slave for three days while being fed only Viagra.

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wLMeE TIL A Canadian teacher used his work issued laptop during a presentation to his Grade 6/7 class and “a picture of female genitalia from an internet ‘pop up’ was inadvertently projected onto the screen and was seen by students and an education assistant"
9YmDD TIL 20% of humans have sensory processing sensitivity - a greater sensitivity and responsiveness to the environment and to social stimuli. Studies show these individuals are strongly affected by others' moods, and have a higher brain activation of regions involved in attention and action planning.
4XEaX TIL in the movie Apollo 13, Jim Lovell's wife Marilyn was seen losing her wedding ring down a shower drain. According to Lovell, this did happen, but she managed to retrieve the ring later.
4k6dw TIL that the X-Patents were patents issued from July of 1790 to July of 1836, all of which were destroyed in a fire. No copies were kept at the time, leaving only the inventors’ copies to reconstruct the entire collection
kWEd TIL In 1914, British WWI soldier Thomas Hughes tossed a beer bottle with a letter to his wife into the English Channel. He was killed two days later. In 1999, a fisherman dredged up the bottle in the River Thames. Although Hughes’ wife had died in 1979, it was delivered to his 86-year old daughter.