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TIL Christopher Nolan is colour-blind

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xV1Ob TIL of a woman who crashed her own funeral after her husband hired hitmen to kill her. They let her go, telling her they didn’t believe in killing women. Five days later she appeared at her own funeral, with her husband pleading for forgiveness.
4X9yw TIL that almost half of the young adults in New Jersey live with their parents
78YNx TIL a Construction Company is older than Islam
4X7k6 TIL that a 61yo Californian man Gregory McFadden after suffering for more than a decade with a medical condition that rendered him unable to sleep and eat properly decided to commit suicide by jumping off a helicopter mid-flight. However, he survived the jump and later died at the hospital.
Y7YgG TIL of Marozia, who was (allegedly) the mistress of Pope Pope Sergius III, the mother of Pope John XI, the grandmother of Pope John XII and Pope Benedict VII and the great-grandmother of Pope Benedict VIII and Pope John XIX and great-great-grandmother of Pope Benedict IX