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TIL Vidkun Quisling, head of Norway's Nazi puppet government, and his second wife, Maria, adopted his first wife, Alexandra, as a foster daughter. He also never legally married Maria.

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Vwok TIL that Mother Teresa’s supposed “miracle cure” of a woman’s abdominal tumor was not a miracle at all. The patient’s doctors and husband said she was cured because she took medicine for 9-12 months. “My wife was cured by the doctors and not by any miracle.”
6E49l TIL Avocados are toxic to horses; they can cause respiratory distress, heart failure, and death.
1aEJP TIL our bodies respond more to changes in skin temperature than core temperature and a warm shower (about 33°C/91.4°F) will cool you down more than a cold shower.
l1BV TIL that the saucer under coffee cups was originally used to pour out the coffee and let it cool. Then people slurped the coffee from the saucer.
dmLK TIL the Apollo 13 astronauts probably hold the record for farthest distance from Earth traveled because of their modified flight trajectory due to the damage done to the Service Module of the spacecraft