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TIL Earth's magnetic field was approximately twice as strong in Roman times as it is now

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VMKnB TIL about Henry Rathbone, the military officer who was sitting next to Lincoln when he was assassinated. He was wracked with guilt over his perceived failure to stop the assassination and slowly went insane. He later murdered his wife in a fit of madness and spent the rest of his days in an asylum
PLAL TIL that millions of spiders completely cocooned trees in silk after the unprecedented 2010 flooding in Pakistan.
5YAp9 TIL That anyone within 18 meters of a gun going off will test positive for GSR (Gunshot Residue).
mxBAP TIL NPR radio host Ira Glass, who has done the show "This American Life" since 1996, received a raise from $170,000 to $278,000 in 2013. Glass said this raise was "unseemly" and asked it to be lowered to $146,000.
KOBo4 TIL that Frank Carney, co-founder of Pizza Hut, was a franchisee of Papa Johns Pizza and owned 133 of their locations.