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TIL Ingrid bergman's affair was so scandalous, it was discussed by a senator

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M7ROW TIL the Persian King Agha Mohammad Khan commanded the killing of two attendants for their loudness. On a holy day, he delayed their execution for a day and had them go back to their work. The attendants assassinated the king while he was sleeping that night.
VBAWm TIL that the US Coast Guard uses a captured Nazi German sailboat to train its cadets
OZwg TIL that Wisconsin is the only state requiring external investigations of police-involved deaths.
DLaD TIL there was a so called “helpful worm” that would gain access to Windows XP systems, download security patches from Microsoft to close the vulnerability that it used to infect the system, attempt to delete the infamous Blaster worm (if present) from the system, then delete itself.
B5bk TIL a nurse wanted to know if her farts were contaminating equipment in the lab. The doctor and a microbiologist tested the hypothesis by having a colleague fart clothed then naked onto two Petri dishes. The conclusion was that clothing acts as a filter, but naked farts can cause contamination.