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TIL: After being acquitted of murdering his wife Claus Von Bülow held a dinner party where his lawyer Alan Dershowitz explained to his guests how the evidence pointed to his innocence. After hearing this Norman Mailer grabbed his wife and said:, "Let's get out of here. I think this guy is innocent."

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PnjO TIL the Environmental Protection Agency regulations for tap water are “actually stricter than the Food and Drug Administration regulations for bottled water.”
GYZNE TIL Robert Downey, Jr. started using drugs at age 6 when his father gave him pot. By age 8, he admits he was a drug addict. B/n 1995-2001, he cycled through arrests, rehab & prison. Sober since 2001, he became the highest-paid actor 2013-2015 and the 2nd highest-grossing box office star of all time.
jNk7n TIL about the sentinel hypothesis: an evolutionary psychology idea that explains why people have different sleep schedules. Night owls and early birds played important roles in early human life.
Me7RB On paper, this is a fantastic way to wipe our hands clean of all that pesky waste. The sun is a constant nuclear reaction that's about 330,000 times as massive as Earth; it could swallow the tens of thousands of tons of spent nuclear rods as easily as a forest fire consumes a drop of gasoline.
M7LBm TIL while laying underwater cable in the Chicago river a diver discovered a 40ft submarine. Inside he found the remains of a human and a dog. Their identity is still a mystery more than a century later.