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TIL AA (South Africa's equivalent of AAA) will send armed guards to your location in the event of a car break down

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0dk11 Today I learned that serial killer Amy Archer-Gilligan, who ran a nursing home and murdered some of the residents, and one of her husbands, was the inspiration behind the Cary Grant movie, "Arsenic and Old Lace."
v1kPx TIL in 1938 William Cooper led a delegation of the Australian Aboriginal League to the German Consulate in Melbourne to hand over a petition protesting the “cruel persecution of the Jewish people by the Nazi government of Germany.” 70 years later Israel planted 70 trees in remembrance of the protest
b6Yd0 TIL more than 100 Greenlandic inuit women have reported getting birth control involuntarily
rR6e0 TIL Hollywood Actor James Garner was a decorated Military Veteran who served in WWII and Korea. He was awarded the purple heart twice in Korea, once from a friendly fire incident where he was shot in the buttocks by a U.S. Fighter as he dove into a foxhole. He was given his medal 32 years later.
dDVwj TIL the link between creative genius and mental illness. That highly creative artists have temperaments more akin to manic depressives than to the general public