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TIL that President Lyndon B. Johnson proposed to Lady Bird Taylor on their first date. They were married 3 months later.

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OokO4 TIL about The Tomb of the Whipping, an etruscan tomb dated to approximately 490 BC and named after a fresco of two men who flog a woman in an erotic context
VMGpQ TIL of Jonathan Luna, an Assistant United States Attorney in Baltimore who was found dead next to his car in a creek, having drowned after sustaining a head injury and being stabbed 36 times with his own pocketknife. Authorities disagree whether his death was murder or suicide.
xAgB TIL there is a browser add-on, Hide Fedora, which block annoying Youtube comments from Reddit Armie
BXeW TIL: The ‘Mad Men’ Writers Are Working on a Show About NASA in the '60s
W1G9 TIL that a New Mexico man tried to kill a mouse that he had caught in a glue trap by burning it alive on a pile of burning leaves. Instead, the fire melted the glue, freeing the flaming mouse which then ran back inside the man’s home and started a fire which burned the house down