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TIL when Happy Days first hit, Henry Winkler and cast were surrounded by fans at an event without a way to escape. Winkler did the Fonz character and told the crowd to part like the Red Sea and they were able to escape.

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YpEAP TIL Jane Kuria and 2 of her 3 children were beaten to death (the son survived) in their home in Boston. They were a family from Kenya who were fleeing female genital mutilation and they were at the time embroiled in the appeals process of asylum. Noone knows who did it.
8GVX TIL that women who swallow semen are less likely to develop preeclampsia.
R7YNl TIL: The Legend of The Deep Sea Black Carpet
9a46 TIL A Canadian lawyer Garry Hoy died in Toronto trying to prove that the glass in the windows of a 24th floor office was unbreakable by throwing himself against it. It was an act he had done twice before. The windows didn’t break but they popped out of the frame and he plunged to his death.
16VL8 TIL, in 1981 a group of American and Canadian citizens plotted to overthrow the government of Dominica with the aim of reinstalling it's former Prime Minister. The plotters were caught and imprisoned, including the former PM.