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TIL that before he became President, Grover Cleveland had an affair with a woman which resulted in her becoming pregnant, and in order to cover up the scandal he had her committed & her child sent to an orphanage.

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e0aln TIL In 1955 GE scientist Tracy Hall manufactured the first Synthetic Diamonds that are widely used today in many industrial applications; for compensation, he was given a $10 savings bond.
M7KPa Today I learned about Jake Adelstein who wrote a news article about a Yakuza boss who made a deal with the FBI to come to the US for a liver transplant, skipping over everyone else on the waiting list.
x8Ro TIL in New Zealand, you can legally own any firearm you want with a few exceptions and their number of gun deaths have been below 100/year since 1992.
VMax4 TIL about James Thurber, author of 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty' was cartoonist in New Yorker who got injured on one eye in childhood and lost vision from the other eye too. But he started seeing hallucinations and it is believed, they were the source of most of his illustrations.
wZBJ TIL: “In France, nearly 96% of high schools…have condom vending machines”