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TIL a Texas dad engaged in a 3-hour armed standoff with police while trying to prevent doctors from pulling the plug on his brain-dead son. The son eventually came out of his coma and recovered. Dad was charged for the incident, but the charges were later reduced.

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rN9Lo TIL The longest ever personal name was that of a German-born American called Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff Sr. His full, unabbreviated name is made up of 26 names, each starting with a different letter of the alphabet, in alphabetical order, followed by a 666-letter surname
eppPE TIL Barley holds significance as the first grain eaten by mankind and can be consumed as bread, beer, and soups. The ancient doctor Galen recommends dill and leeks for flavoring barley water
R694 TIL in 1846, Albert Tirrell became the first to successfully use sleepwalking as a defense for murder and arson in the United States.
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vKKB TIL When cats blink slowly at you it is a sign of affection referred to as a “cat kiss.”