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TIL Joe Exotic was actually married 5 times in total

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Gv5g TIL: When George Washington first ran for the Virginia House of Burgesses, he supplied 164 gallons of of alcohol to only 396 voters so they would like him. Washington won.
j6rlv TIL of the Transfermium Wars, a controversy between US and Soviet scientists about the names of super-heavy elements. The final outcome was to name element 104 as "rutherfordium", element 105 as "dubnium" and element 106 as "seaborgium", which more closely matched the US than the Soviet proposals.
MZaB TIL: Aged 64 and living in Ireland, women gets her baby pic and a letter in post explaining she’s the result of a Nazi experiment …
VnJQ TIL that the Michigan Theater, once one of the most beautiful pieces of architecture in the Midwest, is now used as a parking garage.
69d8l TIL a charity restored the sight of a 60-year-old amnesiac who thought he was much younger. He had been blind for 9 months because he couldn’t afford cataract surgery.