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TIL Cormac McCarthy's ex-wife was arrested after she pulled a gun out of her vagina and threatened her boyfriend with it after a dispute about space aliens.

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ZpwJa TIL Bill Stettner was a pioneering photographer. His photos appeared everywhere. He died risking everything for copyright laws but was scammed out of a fortune.
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gMYm9 TIL in all history people have only taken ~200k tons of gold out of the earth. To compare, when Edmund Fitzgerald went down with 26k tons of iron, it was one of dozens such freighters that's moves that much iron every single day the Great Lakes shipping lanes are open, a fraction of daily worldwide
gM0Yy TIL that at the height of the 1918 flu pandemic, an anti mask league was formed to protest PPE in San Francisco
woYKo TIL in 1979 the CIA used Psychics specializing in a technique call "remote viewing" to gather information on hostages in Iran.