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TIL: In Massachusetts, if you are divorced and live with your ex "as husband and wife" you can be guilty of adultery.

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D1g4V TIL: A Harvard professor experimented on 22 unwitting students, assaulting their belief systems to see what damage could be caused. One of them became the Unabomber.
Y7m7W TIL in US music notation, the name Do doesn't refer to a specific note (C) but to the first note of the scale you're using. So any note can be called Do
GAQ4G TIL: Famine is not a natural disaster — nearly all historical famines, such as the Irish Potato Famine, are primarily man-made.
GAR04 TIL Siblings separated at birth end up just as similar as siblings reared together (height, weight, IQ, academic performance, general cognitive ability). Parenting account for close to 0% of the variation (although abusive parenting is known to cause problems).
9Y196 TIL the FBI agent, Robert Hansen, who spied for the USSR also allowed his neighbor to watch him and his wife have sex, had a long term relationship with a stripper, and was an active member of Opus Dei.