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TIL The first recorded divorce case in America was granted to Anne Clarke whose husband cheated and abandoned her

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W7e8X TIL that E.T.'s race appears in star wars the phantom menace and it is said that E.T. thought it was home when first seeing a kid in a yoda costume
mxobP TIL about a "Rabbit Test", a now retired pregnancy test, in which urine from a human female would be injected into a female rabbit. The rabbit would later be dissected to annualize the effect on it's ovaries. "The rabbit died", used to be slang for getting pregnant.
Zpdk4 TIL that Pandora didn't open a box - she opened a jar. (Pithos - the word in Greek for the thing she opened - is a large ceramic jar the size of a person.)
yVbxp TIL you can pay to bathe in radioactive water in Japan
dD6eE TIL Canada's Gulf Islands National Park Reserve grew after two individuals donated a 7.8 hectare parcel of ecologically sensitive land located on Saturna Island, the first ever donation of privately held land to a federal agency. The park has 33 sq km of land on 15 Islands