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TIL Clyde Barrow (Bonnie and Clyde) once wrote a letter to Henry Ford, thanking him for the reliability and performance of his V-8 automobiles.

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OooML TIL in 1996 and 1997, Emily Rosa, 9, tested 21 therapeutic touch practitioners whether their claims to detect "human energy fields" were true. After finding they were right only 44% of the time, she published the results on 1998, becoming the youngest person to have a research paper published.
N1yQ TIL JFK said “There is a terrific disadvantage not having the abrasive quality of the press applied to you daily … even though we never like it, and even though we wish they didn’t write it … there isn’t any doubt that we could not do the job at all in a free society without [the press]”
9wpxr TIL about Ettore Majorana, a brilliant young physicist who vanished without a trace in 1938. He was responsible for many discoveries in particle physics but never published them, leading others to get the credit.
QNveL TIL Estelle Peck faced a decision after her Japanese husband was incarcerated, stay with her husband of 13 years and be incarcerated or remain in Los Angeles alone. She chose to be with her husband