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TIL a 1994 letter from Johnny Cash to his wife June was voted the greatest love letter of all time. It beat out notes by English Romantic poet John Keats, Winston Churchill, Jimi Hendrix, and the great Hollywood lovers Richard Burton and Liz Taylor.

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1a1ZD TIL of Rob Bob, a 20 year old, 7 foot 7 inch tall basketball player from Romania.
wLGwW NASA has successfully tested an advanced air-to-air photographic technology in flight, capturing the first-ever images of the interaction of shockwaves from two supersonic aircraft in flight.
Bg6jd TIL in an effort to produce a non-addictive version of morphine, Charles Romley Alder Wright was the first person to create heroin in 1874.
vljR TIL producers of Soaked in Bleach responded to Courtney Love’s cease and desist letters by-in part-stating “Love and her lawyers don’t like that the film presents a compelling case for re-opening the investigation into Kurt’s death.”
b600Z TIL that a careful examination of Nestlé’s marketing behaviour shows that Nestlé’s entry into low- and middle-income formula markets caused about 212,000 infant deaths per year among mothers without clean water access at the peak of the Nestlé controversy in 1981