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TIL a woman tried to kill herself by jumping off the Empire State Building, but the wind blew her back onto the building, saving her life

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KY6nE TIL that during a meeting between Grover Cleveland and James Roosevelt, Cleveland said to Roosevelt's accompanying son, Franklin, “My little man, I am making a strange wish for you; that you may never be president of the United States.” The young Franklin Roosevelt became President 45 years later.
X5Qr TIL Actor Steven Seagal was Sued for Driving a Tank into a House, Killing a Puppy during a Police Raid
B7dr TIL that abolitionist & former slave Sojourner Truth, when accused of being a man by a man in the crowd, opened her blouse and after shaking her 59 year old tits at him asked “Want a suck?”
N7DE6 TiL: There's a mutant who has been on the X-men for several years, but nobody at all ever remembered due to his power of immediately forgetting he existed once he leaves your point of view.
yDdV TIL there is a theory that cats became domesticated because they adapted to hunting the vermin found around humans in towns and villages. They were tolerated by people and gradually diverged from their wild relatives through natural selection.