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TIL the five richest women in American married into their money or were born into it.

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GAwL4 TIL the existence of the term "scromiting" : the act of screaming while vomiting, linked to the cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome. Since there is an intense abdominal pain, the person screams while he/she vomits.
P1nYJ TIL That a Bible was published in the 17th century without "not" in the sentence "Thou shalt not commit adultery", changing the sentence into "Thou shalt commit adultery". It became know as the "Wicked Bible".
eAOL TIL the heat a spacecraft faces on reentry isn’t generated by simple friction but rather by ram pressure - the fast-moving shuttle compresses the air in front of it, forming a massive shock zone in which air molecules ionize and break apart.
b5Z9 TIL In response to artist Anish Kapoor buying the exclusive rights to Vantablack pigment, said to be the blackest shade of black, artist Stuart Semple created “the world’s pinkest pink”, and made it available to anyone except Kapoor; things then got messy.
p8lKp TIL in 1992, on average, a bank in Los Angeles was robbed every 45 minutes. Between 1985 and 1995 the ~3,500 retail bank branches in LA were robbed 17,106 times. In 1992 alone, there were 2,641 heists.