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TIL in the midst of the messy divorce, Charles Dickens referred to his wife as “dearest darling, Pig” and attempted to have her committed to an insane asylum so he could live with his 18 year old mistress.

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XN5r TIL more than 12 billion light years away there is a water reservoir floating in space that is equivalent to 140 trillion times all the water in the world’s ocean.
a8jeN TIL that the second in line to Queen Victoria, Prince Albert Victor, was identified by 20th century conspiracists as a suspect in the Jack the Ripper murders, the motive being to suppress knowledge of either his venereal disease or a secret child with a prostitute.
p8x1Q TIL that after their victory at the Battle of Marathon, the Greeks carved a statue of Nemesis (the goddess who punishes the arrogant) out of an enormous block of marble that the Persians had brought to the battle with the intention of carving a monument to their victory over the Greeks.
N8jP TIL that although it was decided by early Christians not to be put in the bible, there is a gospel called the Infancy Gospel of Thomas. This gospel is about Jesus’ childhood and has stories of Jesus cursing other children and making them die and in one case making another child wither into a corpse.
R55y9 TIL of "mail jumping", a form of mail delivery in Geneva Lake, Wisconsin, USA where mail carriers ride along the side of a boat, jump off on to the dock, deliver mail, pick up outgoing mail, and jump back on to the boat all while the boat continues to move.