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TIL the Sphynx cat who played Mr. Bigglesworth in the Austin Powers movies was named Ted NudeGent.

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yNkM TIL The W Virg.coal mining strike of 1912 became open warfare between the company and miners. The company quarantined the mining village, intentionally starving to death women and children. Main demand was company discontinue corrupt coal weighing and stop Stealing wages.
9YnLr TIL President Jimmy Carter’s son smoked weed with Willie Nelson on the roof of The White House
nAOr TIL the Earth has a second moon called 2016 Ho3. Essentially a large asteroid, it orbits the Earth non elliptically but has the most stable orbit of Earths “ other moons”.
yEgJ TIL that Henry Beecher, anesthesiologist in Boston, published a 1966 article that drew attention to 22 examples of unethical clinical research that had risked patients’ lives, which along with subsequent Congressional investigation led to current guidelines on informed consent and human research.
bO47 TIL a Philadelphia man on a business trip to Boston noticed paper curling out from behind his office blinds. He flipped the blinds and saw a giant photo of his identical twin brother staring back at him. His twin had worked in the same office in the same building years earlier.