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TIL U.S. Senator Daniel Sickles was acquitted of murder in 1859 after killing his wife’s lover—by using the first successful temporary insanity defence in U.S. legal history.

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NX5PN TIL that Natale Olivieri created Yoo-hoo after several failed attempts to bottle chocolate drinks that would spoil shortly thereafter. After Olivieri observed his wife canning fruits and vegetables, Olivieri adopted the same heat processing techniques and began officially bottling Yoo-hoo in 1928.
9YGnQ TIL Pterodactyls are not dinosaurs. They are extinct reptiles.
KEm9 TIL Ryan Gosling bought out a whole girl scout cookie stand and handed them out to strangers on the street
4ZJa TIL the reason there are no baby pigeons sightings is because they leave their nest effectively in adult size
9YJZD TIL of the ninth-century monk Ratramnus, who wrote a letter on the subject of whether or not the Cynocephaly, dog-headed men, should be considered human or beasts. The letter describes many human-like customs of Cynocephaly, including farming, and Ratramnus makes the case for their humanity.