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TIL that a man divorced his wife of 70+ years after finding her secret affair letters with another man from 60 years earlier

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gY9y TIL A crew on a plane once fought off a hijacker using techniques such as inverting the plane and flying at near-supersonic speed
Y7Qpx TIL that when scientists put a hamster wheel out in the woods, different types of animals seemed to enjoy running on it, including mice, rats, snails, and frogs
l7Z1 TIL Goldman Sachs owned 16% of the biggest forum for sex trafficking of under-age girls in the United States for more than six years and sat on the company’s board for 4.
LkgdZ TIL that since 2012, there has been a pickle jar that sits on the guardrail on the I-270 North in Des Peres, Missouri. Every time the jar falls, breaks, or disappears, it is always replaced, but who does it remains a mystery.
dJJZ TIL that in 1856, an Indian mathematician was hired to calculate the height of Mount Everest and found it to be exactly 29,000 ft. Authorities released the height as 29,002 ft to avoid speculation that they had just given a rounded estimate as it would have been hard to believe the exact figure.