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TIL that men used to wear heels long before women started wearing them.

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LaOp TIL a nurse named Sandra Clarke had to leave a terminally ill patient alone when asked to stay. When she returned, the patient had passed away from multi-organ-failure. No One Dies Alone was then created, a charity where volunteers sit with terminally ill lonely patients. it’s now international.
M7Ayb TIL that the Chancellor of the University of Alberta from 1982-86 Peter Savaryn was a veteran of the same SS unit as Yaroslav Hunka
xVD17 TIL Pablo Picasso's grandson, Olivier, never knew his grandfather but has written two books about the artist “to set the record straight about rumors and legends and truths". Trained in law, Olivier brokered a deal with French carmaker Citroën to make a signature Picasso automobile
bJWp TIL 30 Major U.S. Corporations Paid More to Lobby Congress Than Income Taxes from 2008-2010
W776B TIL about Abd al-Rahman. A Umayyad prince who narrowly escaped the killing of his family by the Abassid and wandered across Egypt and North Africa in exile for years before reaching Iberia and starting a kingdom that lasted for three centuries there where Muslim, Jews and Christians lived together.