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TIL Drug kingpin el chapo married his wife emma coronel on her 18th birthday. He was 50 at the time.

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by4N TIL Bausch & Lomb packaged identical lenses under 4 different brands with different pricing, charging $3 to $70 per pair depending on how often the lenses would be replaced. They also repackaged lens cleaning solution (23¢ per ounce) as eye drops, which sold for $4.49 per ounce.
lera TIL Amelia Earhart wrote a prenup letter to her fiancée, George Putnam, stating she wanted an open marriage and “I shall not hold you to a medieval code of faithfulness to me, nor shall I consider myself bound to you similarly”. Also “I may have to keep some place where I can go to be myself”.
ZNaG TIL that Szechuan Sauce comes from the Asian Sichuan peppercorn which was banned in the US from 1968 to 2005 because it carried canker bacteria. The FDA lifted the ban provided that the peppercorns were heated to to kill any bacteria before import. The bacteria was only harmful to other crops.
LJJv TIL Norway stopped investing money into Walmart after determining that the company is guilty of “serious violations of fundamental ethical norms.”
mxNOM TIL that Stockholm syndrome is not a real syndrome, and cannot be found in any clinical psychology textbooks (DSM-5 etc). The term has achieved its widespread fame almost solely due to media oversimplification of complex psychological phenomena.