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TIL that Anne Dudek's character on Friends and HIMYM shared the same fate: broken up by the guy she dated on her birthday

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XEoeD TIL as a response to a theory alleging Joan of Arc's visions was caused by bovine tuberculosis, a historian wrote that if drinking unpasteurized milk could produce such potential benefits for the nation, then the French government should stop mandating the pasteurization of milk.
Pk4n TIL that despite dying in 1976, billionaire Howard Hughes (THE AVIATOR) had no living will and his estate was not fully dispersed until 2010, 34 years later
5Y6Vp TIL that in medieval Romania there was a little chamber in the grounds of a fortified church in which couples, whi were thinking about divorce were send and locked up to six weeks in order to repair their relationship. Suprisingly it was very effective.
b6W5p TIL that the Panama Canal is actually North to South from the Atlantic side, and the Atlantic entrance is 37 km West of the Pacific entrance...so, you actually go West to East when taking the canal from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
gMkZ9 TIL of the Amazing Randi, a magician/skeptic who spent his life debunking false magicians, skeptics and con men, such as Uri Geller