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Today I Learned that Daylight Savings Time was first proposed by a man who, as he studied bugs after his shift-work job, wanted more daylight after work.

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e0n5J TIL : IN 2006, a man in Portland, Oregon hired a hitman to kill his 51-year-old wife. His wife ended up killing the hitman with her bare hands. When Susan Kuhnhausen had her hands on his neck she asked him, "TELL ME WHO SENT YOU HERE AND I WILL CALL YOU A FUCKING AMBULANCE!"
pme TIL there are no Walmarts in New York City due to intense opposition from local unions and politicians
JYJlk TIL when u want to get a tattoo removed u poop it out at the end.
LkGg9 TIL towards the end of filming the first Harry Potter film, Daniel Radcliffe's voice broke. For the final filmed scenes, a "soundalike" child actor, Joe Sowerbutts, was recruited to overdub his lines in post-production.
m18vY TIL that, in 1996, workers at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station found and subsequently decontaminated four orphaned, mildly-radioactive kittens.