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TIL Bill Nye filed a restraining order against his wife of 7 weeks after she poured weed killer on his garden.

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mPJY TIL that during the Depression, women would make clothing out of feed sacks. When the manufacturers found out, they started printing floral and geometric patterns on the inside of the sacks.
ADAgg TIL Jackie Robinson was court-martialed for refusing to move to the back of an Army bus, 11 years before Rosa Parks.
0wOKM TIL about Ahlam Tamimi, who planned a bombing at a pizza shop in Israel & drove the bomber there, killing 15 people incl. 7 children & a pregnant women; injuring 130 including a young mother still in a coma. Today Tamimi is a celebrity talk-show host in Jordan & has said she "would do it again"
WrdX TIL of the Toddler’s Truce, where British television stations would stop broadcasting between 6pm - 7pm to allow parents to put their children to bed.
AGbn TIL the burning sensation felt when applying rubbing alcohol to cuts is caused by nerve cells in the cut that are trying to protect you by responding to heat. The alcohol lowers the amount of heat needed to turn on these cells so much that your own body temperature causes the burning.