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TIL Chris Martin of Coldplay’s great-grandfather William Willet campaigned for and made daylight saving time a recognised practice.

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wle1 TIL that families in blood debt some times attempt to resolve the situation by leaving a baby (face down into a pillow) on their doorstep. If the grieving family turn the baby over, they accept it into their home and the 2 families are related. If they leave the baby to die, the feud intensifies.
Br6lK TIL In 1933 Asbestos companies settled claims about the damage of asbestos, they then funded the research so they could control it.
0ddXv TIL in France it is illegal to disinherit one’s children, meaning that a particular share of the deceased’s estate is legally required to be kept for their children, or for their spouse if they had no children
DQMLv TIL Luigi Lucheni was an Italian anarchist that assassinated Empress Elizabeth of Austria. He was furious to find out that capital punishment had been abolished and was imprisoned for life.
yDre TIL: The Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad was known as the “Little Giant"since the tonnage that it moved was out of proportion to its route mileage. It operated around one tenth of one percent of the nation’s railroad miles, it hauled around one percent of its tonnage.