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TIL Yoko Ono, the controversial former wife of the Beatles' John Lennon, is one of the most successful dance club artists on Billboard, with 13 #1 dance club hits and ranking as the 11th most successful dance club artist of all time by Billboard

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M4GV TIL in 2005, a woman performing her first solo skydive jump of 10000 ft survived a parachute malfunction which caused her to slam face first into a parking lot at 50 MPH. During surgery doctors discovered she was pregnant. She made a full recovery and the baby was fine.
VMRkD TIL: Having standard showtimes for films was not common until 1960. Previously most films would just play on a loop, and people could enter at any time. Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho required that people watch from the beginning to the end and made showtimes more standard.
6956Y TIL that Finland, the country of thousands of lakes, does not have that much water. The average depth of its lakes is only 7 meters, meaning that all the lake water in Finland combined is less than a fourth of the contents of Ladoga. However, to be fair, Ladoga is the largest lake in Europe.
p8jgp TIL About 73 year old Harriet Baker. ~1990, her husband died leaving her their fully paid home. Scientologists learned of the home, told her an audit could cure her of grief, supplied her with a $45,000 mortgage and then took it for her audit
N74e TIL In Colonial America, women were sentenced to the stocks with wooden clips on their tongues or subjected to the “dunking stool” for the gender-specific crime of talking too much.