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TIL in June 2021, Boryana Straubel, wife of Tesla co-founder J.B. Straubel, was struck and killed while riding a bicycle on a highway shoulder in Nevada. She managed a family foundation that focused on environmental sustainability. The driver of the car that hit her was unlicensed.

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OoZg1 TIL about Henry Rathbone, a Major in the Union Army who was with President Lincoln at the time of his assassination in Ford's theate. Despite being stabbed and slashed by John Wilkes Booth, he tried to apprehend the assassin and escorted Mary Lincoln to her husband, later passing out from blood loss
KOgjQ TIL that a legal fight between the heirs of John Steinbeck prevented Steven Spielberg from directing a re-make of "The Grapes of Wrath" starring Daniel Day-Lewis
Oorl4 TIL, the worst opening in chess is called The Bongcloud Attack. It has been used by Grandmasters as both a joke and as a show of dominance.
6ro8 TIL Ulysses S. Grant wrote his memoirs after being commissioned by Mark Twain. After his presidency, Grant had lost all his savings to a shady investment partner, leaving his family nearly destitute. Grant died days after finishing, but sold over 300,000 copies and earned his family over $450,000.
nWjgP TIL that DFIA (prev. Munchausen by proxy) is one of the most lethal forms of child abuse, with a 6-10% child mortality rate; 25% of siblings of FDIA child victims were also found to be deceased. The only known treatment is separating child from the abusive caregiver, and caregivers rarely improve.