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TIL Taking a double dose of Plan B if overweight does not make it more effective.

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Zvkv TIL a woman had her ex arrested through a fake cute girl facebook page conversations. Police released husband when he showed a notarized affidavit: “I am lying to this [fake profile] to gain proof that my ex-wife is trying to again tamper with my life. In no way do I have plans to harm my wife”
e07GJ TIL Hajime Isayama, creator of the "Attack On Titan" manga, came up with the idea for the Titans because of an encounter with a drunk customer in an internet cafe he worked at.
rRY4e TIL of the 98 US POW Rock, a rock upon which the lone survivor carved an inscription to tell the world of 98 US soldiers taken prisoner and later executed by the Japanese. He was promptly beheaded when he was caught.
ppRG TIL the city of Surprise, Arizona was named by its founder who stated she “would be surprised if the town ever amounted to much.”
0w49L TIL that in 1986, Soviet pilot Alexander Kliuyev made a bet with his co-pilot that he could land the airplane using an instrument-only approach with curtained cockpit windows, thus having no visual contact with the ground. The plane crashed and 70 people died.