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TIL From 2001 to 2006, a Spanish Woman staged 7 fake kidnappings of her children, receiving over 600,000 euros in "ransom" from her husband.

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N7Mb TIL that a star called R136a1 is the most massive (265 solar masses) and most luminous (8,700,000 times the luminosity of the Sun) star known.
o9EY TIL to film the weightless space scenes in the Apollo 13 movie the cast and crew did 612 25-second takes aboard NASA’s zero-gravity plane
b6MpQ TIL In his Inaugural address, President James Buchanan declared that the turmoil surrounding slavery was “happily, a matter of but little practical importance”. By the end of his four-year term, seven states had seceded from the Union, and civil war was imminent.
4X7GJ TIL The Tender Years Doctrine (generally regarded as the age of four and under), presumed in a divorce that the mother should have custody of the child. The law remained in place until the late 20th Century.
R7DYj TIL about the Bonnacon, a medieval mythical beast that had curling horns and a mane and took down enemies with a jet of caustic feces.