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TIL Sherri Papini staged her own kidnapping on November 2, 2016

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O9Ne TIL Henry Ford believed ethanol was the future of fuel and said: “There’s enough alcohol in one year’s yield of an acre of potatoes to drive the machinery necessary to cultivate the fields for a hundred years.”
VBBA4 TIL George Lindsey (Goober Pyle) was Gene Roddenberry's first choice to play Spock on 'Star Trek'
pQ5O TIL In 1998, workmen restoring the only surviving home of Ben Franklin dug up the remains of six children and four adults hidden below the home
N79D8 TIL of Major Francis Harvey VC who after being mortally wounded and losing both legs during the Battle Of Jutland crawled to a voice pipe to order the burning magazine sealed and flooded, saving the HMS Lion and its 1000 sailors from being destroyed in a magazine explosion
Xy9P TIL that around one in four doctors experience depression, but are much less likely to receive treatment due to fear they will be punished professionally. The profession also has one of the highest rates of suicide among all professions.