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P1JLZ TIL that a Texas lawyer killed himself because Dateline NBC waited outside his home to catch him in their child predator sting
e00pn TIL in 1930, Ellen Church (a licensed pilot herself) persuaded airlines to change their minds about hiring females by challenging them: “Don’t you think that it would be good psychology to have women up in the air? How is a man going to say he is afraid to fly when a woman is working on the plane?”.
KOjL4 TIL at least 42,000 workers remain trapped on cruise ships without paychecks
W71xd TIL that excess human food is harmful to wildlife. So we can't just dump all the leftovers into a forest or something and let them do whatever with it, choosing landfills and even poisoning supermarket dumpsters instead...
BLex TIL Mengistu, the brutal communist dictator of Ethiopia, who had thousands of people executed and may have personally murdered Emperor Haile Selassie is alive and well under asylum in Zimbabwe