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TIL A man killed his wife inside the Walmart she was working at. Rather than close the store, they chose to just rope off the gore-splattered area while the police investigated.

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x68vg TIL in late 1870 there was a naval battle near Havanna between a French and a German ship. It was the only naval fight of the Franco-Prussian War.
dDD5d TIL There are 500 Registered "Time Banks" in the United States Where People Bank and Exchange Hours of Service Instead of Fiat
DQw6e TIL James Longstreet’s (Confederate general and US Minister to the Ottoman Empire) second wife, Helen Dortch Longstreet, died in 1962 at the age of 99. They got married in 1897, he was 74 and she was 34. She was widowed in 1904, childless.
GAgbQ TIL the peace symbol is a combination of the semaphore letters N and D, which stood for Nuclear Disarmament
nk1P TIL During World War I, before the traction splint was introduced, femur fractures had an 80% mortality rate. After the splint was introduced, the rate dropped to around 8%.