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TIL Albert Einstein had an affair with a Soviet spy.

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Nm5N TIL that the earliest surviving depiction of Jesus portrays him as a donkey on a cross.
EdRW TIL: A Woman thought some cheese was cocaine so she hired a hit-man to kill a house full of people to steal it.
7rg9M TIL that within a month of opening her pediatric clinic, Dr. Kathleen Holland experienced six cases of children stopping breathing during their visit, one of whom died. One of her nurses had been administering dangerous injections to them, and was in fact a serial killer, unbeknownst to Dr. Holland.
69lGW TIL women attempt suicide more than men, but men are just more successful at it
e0Zyb TIL Ernest Hemingway mocked the interpretation of Chekhov's gun in his short story "Fifty Grand" with an example of two characters that are introduced and then never again mentioned.