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Today I learned Nurses Day is the birthday of Florence Nightingale

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m110v TIL that despite the disclaimer at the beginning of the movie Fargo, saying it was a true story, the movie was for the most part not true. It only took parts of other true stories, one of which became the wood chipper scene.
DbDY TIL that soon after Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin, David Wesson perfected a method for creating an edible cooking oil from the abundance of seeds.
X015r TIL of a plane who made a forced landing on a Greenland ice cap in Nov. 1942. In attempting their rescue, 6 more planes either also stranded or crashed and it would take the survivors 5 and a half months of sheltering on the glacier until they were all rescued.
16897 TIL about George Spencer. He was executed by hanging for charges of sodomy after being convicted for an alleged sexual act with an animal. When a sow gave birth to a malformed piglet resembling Spencer, it was believed that this was irrefutable evidence that an act of bestiality had taken place
4kXJJ TIL the closest relatives of cetaceans (whales) are hippopotamuses