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TIL A romance novelist who wrote an online essay “How to Murder Your Husband” received life in prison for murdering her husband.

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w4ZW TIL that the oldest alliance in the world is between the UK and Portugal, and is over 700 years old.
R7b84 TIL a shark helped another shark give birth at an Auckland, New Zealand aquarium in 2009. The first shark bit the abdomen of the second, freeing the pups inside. One aquarium staff member said "It had to bite a certain part to let them out and do it without killing the babies or her."
KOEDa TIL When Einstein was asked if he stood on the shoulders of Newton, he replied “No, on the shoulders of Maxwell”
j9xN TIL Professor Geoff Raisman spent 60 years of his life trying to find a cure for paralysis. He was fired twice but 9 months ago he helped paralysed Darek Fidyka walk again and believes his team’s work, and this breakthrough, will help many paralyzed people walk again in the near future.
LXkm TIL…Ray Krok asked a group of MBA students what business was McDonald’s in. Their answer…Hamburgers. His Answer…Real Estate. Today McDonald owns some of the most valuable real estate in the world.