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TIL that two different women with no known connections attempted to assassinate then-president Gerald Ford within 17 days of one another in 1975.

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9YpoQ TIL Lays marketed a low calorie "WOW" brand of chips that made consumers crap their pants. The main ingredient, Olestra, is a fat substitute which allows for frying without calories being added. The problem is your body can't absorb it. Consumers suffered from cramping, diarrhea, and anal leakage.
NwRJ TIL that people without light stimulation from the sun (i.e. in a cave) tend to have a 48 hour sleep-wake cycle
6EXG7 TIL Rob Gronkowski hasn't spent any of his NFL salary. He lives off of his endorsements and seems to be a really responsible person despite his party boy image.
ND56 TIL of Fabian von Schlabrendorff, a member of the German resistance against Hitler who survived the war, because while awaiting his trial, the courtroom took a direct hit from a bomb during an air raid killing the Judge, who had condemned all his of his co-conspirators to death.
8eEmL TIL that Göbeklitepe, an archaeological site in southeastern Turkey's Şanlıurfa province is described as "the zero point of history…"