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TIL Nearly Half of All Murdered Women Are Killed by Romantic Partners

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ZkBv TIL that Indian Casinos came about because a Native American couple, Russell and Helen Bryan, living on a reservation fought property tax all the way up to the Supreme Court therefore establishing precedent that the US government cannot regulate Indian affairs on reservations.
QJonk TIL that William Atherton who plays the lawyer Walter Peck in Ghostbusters was so hated that after the movie came out he was harassed on the street and challenged to fights in bars.
eYkJ TIL that when Jerry Garcia was a child his brother cut off his middle finger in an axe accident. He also watched his father drown.
GYkD4 TIL that dozens of women sent Ted Kaczynski (the Unabomber) provocative letters. He fell in love with a fourth-grade teacher, who he forged a "deep connection" with. Music he composed was played at her funeral, and he called her his "Lady Love".
Z6jY TIL France removes 900 tons of unexploded ordinance each year from the ‘No-Go Zone’. Farmers call it the 'Iron Harvest’.