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TIL: Canadian author William Stevenson wrote a book about Canadian spy William Stephenson

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WRn4 TIL in 1897, a man was sentenced to life in prison for murdering his wife solely based on the testimony of his wife’s ghost who visited her mother in the night and detailed the crime.
ObWg TIL the Israeli Galil rifle was designed with a bottle opener by the front handguard because it was common for soldiers to damage magazines using them as bottle openers.
e0llg TIL that Mr. Rogers went in front of the Senate to plead with them not to cut funding for PBS. Not only did he prevent the cut of funding, but he scored PBS an additional $20 million grant. He only talked for six minutes.
6VZm TIL that bronze is generally harder than iron. The Bronze Age didn’t give way to the Iron Age because iron weaponry was superior; rather, iron was more plentiful and easier to work with.
VB008 TIL that in the UK, sports teams being relocated is extremely uncommon compared to the US, since the local football club is regarded by most English football supporters as part of the local identity and social fabric, rather than as a business that can be transplanted by its owners at will.