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TIL James and Betty Jones learned what a James Beard Award was on the day that they won one.

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e0BDn TIL Writer Norah Vincent lived as a man for 18 months. She said the experience opened her eyes to the “suffering of men”, namely the pain from a lack of emotional intimacy & weight of being “providers”. Traumatized by the ordeal, she checked herself into a mental health facility after it was over.
xovo TIL that in 2010 an unlucky airline passenger was arrested in Ireland after Slovak security officials placed explosives in his luggage for training, then forgot to remove them before the plane took off.
R7RGa TIL Victoria, Canada still releases all of its sewage into the Pacific Ocean, raw and untreated
xY7o TIL Steve McQueen’s infidelity saved his life. He was supposed to attend the dinner party where the Manson family murdered Sharon Tate and others, but skipped it after he “ran into a chickie”.
wPro TIL that in Rome the ruins of Pompey’s Theatre (the temple where Julius Caesar was assassinated) is now a protected cat sanctuary. This important historical site is now a no-kill zone for various breeds of cats to live peacefully