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TIL Phryne of Greece was acquitted due to her beauty, after jurors admired her naked body

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MeW1V TIL the life of a wild rabbit is nasty, brutish, and short. Due to predators, disease, and food shortages, they rarely live past 1-2 years. Well-cared-for pet rabbits live 8-12 years.
ADpxd TIL of James F. Fixx, who spurred the jogging craze with his best-selling books about running and preached the gospel that active people live longer. He died of a heart attack while on a solitary jog at 52 years old.
enOb TIL Americans waste as much as 40% of their food.
Ly80 TIL: The common spiral depiction of the Milky Way Galaxy used in media is actually another galaxy:Messier 74. Because we dwell within the Milky Way Galaxy, it is impossible for us to take a picture of its spiral structure from the outside.
byja TIL when the face of Italian fashion model Fabio, which has graced the cover of hundreds of romance novels, got struck by a goose on a roller coaster, he refused to sue, saying that he was not interested in profiting from the accident, but only wanted the park to install proper safety measures.