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TIL that Willie Nelson was married to Martha Matthew. The marriage was marked by violence, as Matthews assaulted Nelson on several occasions. On one occasion, she sewed him up in bedsheets and beat him with a broomstick.

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BrApr TIL 1/3 of people regularly eat insects every day. Insects contain high amounts of fibre, protein, vitamins and minerals.
8aJOL TIL The 'Space Window' at Washington National Cathedral features a moon rock returned to Earth by Neil Armstrong and his Apollo 11 crew. The cathedral hosted a memorial service for Armstrong in 2012 to mark the passing of the first moonwalker
MekVA TIL that the woman who discovered pulsars in the 1970s did not receive credit, and the Nobel prize went to her supervisor instead, a man who had originally dismissed her work.
vOnL TIL mountains on the moon Titan are named after mountains from JRR Tolkien’s Middle Earth
wAl6 TIL- After the Port Chicago explosion, the Navy asked Congress for $5000 to be given to each of the victims’ families. When one congressman learned most of the victims were black sailors, he successfully had the value reduced. To $3000.