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TIL the A's baseball team used to have sheep grazing in the outfield

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BrljK TIL that in 2017, a Florida man who had written a self-help book about saving a marriage through communication, killed his wife and posted a picture of her dead body on Facebook.
8eyNa TIL that there is a species of Chinese spider called Hotwheels sisyphus
81Yb TIL the guy responsible for many of the sex act images on Wikipedia is gloriously named SeedFeeder and drew inspiration from airline safety guides.
WkOAd TiL When F4 Phantom pilots were carrying a nuclear payload, they were issued an eye patch. Before they flew into the target area, they would put the eye patch on, just in case they accidentally blinded themselves with one of their own nukes, they'd still have one good eye. Link is a pilot interview
GAoLG TIL that there are over 17,000 fracture critical bridges in the US. These bridges are subject to collapse when there is a single structural failure.