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TIL when Amelia Earhart was proposed by her boyfriend George Putnam, she suggested a one-year temporary marriage to test its feasibility . She also said, "On our life together I shall not hold you to any medieval code of faithfulness to me nor shall I consider myself bound to you similarly."

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8PKP TIL Bill Murray finds autographs impersonal. When one guy asked for his autograph he instead created a short film of them all walking down a hall in slow motion.
6EQDQ TIL of the "Chicken poop prison" in Thailand. The ceiling of the cells was a grate, and chickens were cared for above the cell. Their dung was then allowed to drop freely onto the criminal within.
J1w08 TIL that Richard Nixon visited high Vietnam War protestors one morning at 4 AM
WkgxN TIL a 7-year-old boy named Zhenya Tabakov was posthumously awarded Russia’s Order of Courage. He died defending his older sister from being assaulted by a criminal in their home. Zhenya stabbed him with a kitchen knife and he let his sister go. She ran for help. The criminal stabbed Zhenya 8 times.
OGPXL TIL about Haley, a dog that survived a car plunging 1100 feet into Crater Lake, walking back up to the rim with only minor injuries