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TIL The Incredibles takes place in the 1960's

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xXXo TIL that in 1976, doctors in Los Angeles went on strike, and the mortality rate dropped 18%.
AAQw TIL it is still legal to kill Scots in the English city of York, as long as they are carrying a bow and an arrow
KYVMG TIL about the term “desk murderer,” a term used to describe people who plan and organize killings without personally taking part in murder.
9Kxm TIL that despite creating the very rational and logical character of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a firm believer in the supernatural and his beliefs even cost him his friendship with the very skeptical Harry Houdini.
7rM7M til of Francis Noel Baker. the only man to win both an Olympic medal and a Nobel prize. he won a silver in the 1500m in the 1920 Olympics and the Nobel peace prize in 1959.