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TIL that in 2006, a Tennessee woman shot her sleeping husband in the back with a shotgun. She received 60 days in a mental health facility and less than one year of probation. She also retained full custody of his children.

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9WGQ TIL When Peter Falk was playing in a Little League game, the umpire called him out. Falk thought that he was safe. He pulled his glass eye out of its socket and handed it to the umpire, telling him, “Here, I think you might need this.”.
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VBL0m TIL that after data reviews, "no evidence [was found] that placebo interventions in general have large clinical effects"