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TIL that "Where the Crawdads Sing" was Delia Owens' first and only novel, and she was a conservationist and zoologist who wrote about her work with animals before that book was written

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vPVbK TIL that the infamous (Sylvia Plath) suicide technique of sticking one's head in an oven was not a hot, violent affair. Rather, ovens used to run on "town gas" that had high carbon monoxide, and putting your head in an unlit oven was a rather peaceful way to go.
9wWdX TIL that regular soap doesn't kill germs and bacteria, soap "traps" them on your skin and allows them to be "rinsed" off
rR5Qy TIL Afghanistan is believed to have only one Jewish citizen left. His name is Zablon Simintov and he refuses to leave. The country once housed a community of 40,000 Jews which dwindled down to just him. His main job is caring for Kabul's last remaining synagogue which he is the only member.
xKgw TIL Kid Rock has full custody of his son and demanded $25 a week child support from the child’s mother when she requested more visitation time.
1pgO TIL that Bill Hicks’s parents, worried about his behavior, took him to a psychoanalyst at age 17 but, according to Hicks, after one session the psychoanalyst informed him that “…it’s them, not you.”