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TIL a Florida man who tried to electrocute his pregnant wife was caught when he prematurely changed his Facebook status to "widowed".

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neyPW Today I learned 25% of mammals are threatened by extinction.
p8x78 TIL The Cheesecake Factory menu is 5,940 words long. The company has the extensive menu as a selling point and driver of word-of-mouth advertising. Researchers D. Godes and D. Mayzlin found that a single conversation by a new customer leads to an almost $200 increase in restaurant sales.
epPML TIL that on March 2008, a group of emo teens battled a group of punk teens in Mexico City until the Hare Krishna intervened an calmed everyone down
b9LQj TIL between Nigerian independence in 1960 to 1999 there were a total of 9 military coups (6 of which were successful). That's a coup almost every fourth year!
Oodm7 TIL Henry VIII may have been a carrier for the rare Kell blood antigen that would have caused his wives’ antibodies to attack their Kell-positive fetuses, resulting in neonatal death