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TIL Eminem’s mother at the age of 15 almost died giving birth to him. It took 73 hours.

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kOVpW TIL Electrolysed water will kill spores and many viruses and bacteria and costs less than a penny per gallon. Turns out zapping salt water with low-voltage electricity creates a couple of powerful yet nontoxic cleaning agents.
p8NPO TIL of the Guano Islands Act of 1856, authorizing US naval forces to annex islands for the purpose of collecting bird poop
nkOW TIL there is a web-based business that will anonymously send animal feces to a person of your choosing
YpDVP TIL that on 9/11/2001, North East Air Defense Sector commanding officer Kevin Nasypany remarked "The hijack's not supposed to be for another hour" because they had scheduled a simulation involving politically motivated asylum-seekers hijacking a plane & landing it on a Cuba-like island
9w4XQ TIL that prior to making A Beautiful Mind, Ron Howard developed a different film about a man overcoming schizophrenia. Laws of Madness was an inspirational film about Michael Laudor, a Yale Law School graduate living with schizophrenia. The film was called off when Laudor murdered his girlfriend.