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TIL that cheating your spouse is a crime in NY, carrying a possible sentence of up to 6 months in jail

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04nR TIL in 1906 Mark Twain, lonely and missing his wife and daughters, formed a club of young girls called the Angelfish Club who met regularly at his house to play cards.
Yppav TIL that the US Navy engaged in only one action in the Pacific during WWI. A German commerce raider ran out of coal for its boilers and docked at Guam to resupply in 1914. Guam lacked coal, so it stayed moored for 3 years until the US entered the war in 1917, whereupon they promptly scuttled it.
p8QX4 TIL As late as 1000 B.C. lions idled on the banks of the Nile—and some even lounged in palaces as domesticated pets for the royals. Very rare lion mummies discovered in Egypt, until today, only one lion mummy had been found by Egyptologists.
bDop TIL Since 2005, the Parents Television Council has deemed Family Guy the Worst TV Show of the Week on at least 40 occasions, and has filed many complaints to the FCC for “oblique sexual innuendo”. Seth MacFarlane responded “it was like getting hate mail from Hitler.”
N7GGJ TIL about Robert Wright and Kenneth Moore. Two combat medics who parachuted behind enemy lines on D-Day without weapons. For 3 days without sleep, they treated wounded soldiers from both sides and civilians.