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TIL Yoko Ono stalked John Lennon for over a year while he was married, sometimes standing in front of his house for hours silently.

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dpD9 TIL: For the first time since 1974, nobody climbed to the top of Mount Everest last year.
KOoJ6 TIL the ‘Read the Bills Act’ is a proposed act that would require members of Congress to read bills before they vote on them. It has been in limbo since 2006.
x6PBw TIL: the population of mountain gorillas currently is a little less than 1000.
XJnX TIL German scientist, Gerhard Domagk, developed the antibacterial agent Prontosil, a sulfonamide. He used this agent to treat his own daughter, preventing her from an arm amputation. He won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1939.
ADx4d TIL of Toupie Lowther, the first openly lesbian woman in sport, who toured the tennis tournaments of Europe in her open-top Mercedes-Benz, had a science degree from the Sorbonne, was a fencer, a practitioner of jujitsu, and assembled a mutlinational all-woman ambulance unit she led to the WWI front.