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TIL that the moon's gravity affects the LHC's proton beam so much that it has to be compensated for during operation

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R5aX8 TIL that in 1985, a woman named Dawn Smith worked with the FBI to draw out a serial killer who had murdered her sister Shari, talking to him by phone multiple times, even after he said God told him to kill her too. The following year, Dawn was 1st runner up in the Miss America pageant.
graE7 TIL That Not only were programs & games once stored on audio cassettes, some of the earliest forms of program sharing & Data transmission were done via radio broadcasts with audio that you would record to a write a program to a cassette tape.
6VDW TIL In Moscow, Russia, there are stray dogs that ride the subways on the same schedule each day.
v1eEL TIL A nurse treated female patient's genitals like a ventriloquist's dummy in front of colleagues. He was examining in front of three colleagues when he “pulled her labia apart and said ‘Hello my name is [Patient A]’, treating her labia like a puppet”, a Nursing and Midwifery Council panel heard.
OGJNY TIL that there were women gladiators, known as “gladiatrices”. They fought against each other or against animals to entertain their audience.