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TIL that at age 12, Laura Ingalls Wilder defended herself against a sexual advance with a knife, and that her editor later cut the scene from her book (p. 1, last ¼th)

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rNeAy TIL Airport noise complaints come from a small group of mostly the same individuals (page 53 of linked document)
awbW9 TIL of Judy Buenoano aka 'Black Widow'. She had been convicted of poisoning her husband with arsenic, drowning her son, and attempting to kill her fiancé with a car bomb. In 1998, she was the first woman to be executed in the state of Florida since 1848
VBWyQ TIL about the Marriage of Charlie Johns and Eunice Winstead - a 22 year old farmer that married a 9 year old girl.
Alwx TIL that the famous ‘No brown M&Ms’ clause by the band Van Halen was actually a very sophisticated method of quality control used in their concerts.
y1xa TIL that people used to walk a different way, up to about 1500 years ago when shoes started to be designed for cities