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TIL that famous physicist Richard Feynman’s second wife divorced him because he would do calculus “while lying in bed at night.”

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nDmB TIL Billy Bob Thornton cheated on Angelina Jolie with the therapist he was seeing about his sex addiction
M9o0 TIL in 2015, a top Russian Military Strategist recommended dropping a Megaton-Class Nuclear Bomb on Yellowstone National Park, catalyzing a Supervolcano Eruption that could kill more than 50% of the U.S. population in the first 24 hours. He recommends such action if “tensions should ever boil over”.
WkED8 TIL about WWII American Lieutenant John R. Fox. He volunteered to stay behind in a town overrun by enemy troops as US troops retreated. As the enemy advanced he called in an artillery barrage on himself. When US troops later counterattacked they found his body alongside about 100 German soldiers.
8XDb TIL of the GLASGOW ICE CREAM WARS where rival ice cream truck drivers sold Drugs from their trucks, shot at each other, and committed arson throughout the 80’s
xVAND TIL the stereotype of a witch riding a broomstick may come from historic witches straddling hallucinogenic substance-coated brooms naked to apply the drugs to their vaginas