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TIL a study showed that falling in love can boost women's immune system

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MLZ8 TIL in 1970 Jimmy Carter let a prisoner convicted of murder obtain a work release to serve as a maid at the governor’s mansion. He was so impressed, when he was elected president in 1976 he volunteered to be her parole officer & let her continue working at the White House. She was later exonerated.
EgnYo TIL, in 1566, A heavily pregnant Mary, Queen of Scotts, was held up at gunpoint, as her Secretary (David Rizzio), was dragged away from her and stabbed to death by her Husband and his co-conspirators, forcing Mary to witness the execution as he begged the Queen to save him.
l7lya TIL that gelatin is obtained by boiling cattle and pig carcasses.
6RQQ TIL The popular Christmas song “Fairytale of New York” by the Pogues was written after a wager that the band couldn’t write a Christmas hit single.
vPKrr TIL that coconut is also a seed