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TIL that the video for Soul Asylum’s “Runaway Train” helped reunite 26 missing children with their families.

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oRNXL TIL during his bachelor's degree, Robert Andrews Millikan was asked to teach elementary physics course although he was studying classics. He accepts the offer, studies a physics book during a summer vacation and after 34 years he wins the Nobel Prize for Physics.
Wa04 TIL that the first woman to be nominated as a US Presidential Candidate was Victoria Woodhull of the “Equal Rights Party” in 1872
Qabk TIL that Uruguay is the ONLY country with fully legalized posession, sale, transportation and cultivation of Marijuana
gVb8 TIL Martha Stewart ended her relationship with Sir Anthony Hopkins after watching The Silence of the Lambs because she was unable to avoid associating Hopkins with the character of Hannibal Lecter.
e0RD5 TIL the mile is based off a bunch of Roman guys deciding to take a thousand paces and call that a mile