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TIL Matt LeBlanc won a Golden Globe for his portrayal of Matt LeBlanc

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OGaae TIL that the adoption of perfumed hair oil (macassar oil) by men in the 19th century led to lace doilies (antimacassars) being placed on couches and chairs to try and protect them.
VDxD TIL of Blakely, an Australian shepherd that acts as a surrogate parent to rejected animals at the Cincinnati Zoo.
0wZPp TIL after her husband (Fritz Haber, Nobel Prize winner) returned home from the front lines, having recently helped unleash chemical weapons onto the battle field for the first time, Clara Immerwahr shot herself in the heart with his military issue pistol in protest.
R5MGQ TIL that satellites in geosynchronous orbit generally retain a spacing of at least 73 km's from one another.
Zp4d4 TIL Kathy Schroeder, a survivor of the Waco tragedy, still identifies as a Branch Davidian, believes that she would still be at Mount Carmel if the siege hadn't happened, and is still convinced that David Koresh was "a prophet, the son of God, a manifestation of God."