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TIL that a christian anti-gay activist lawyer filmed herself having sex with her teen daughter

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0woyL TIL a Princeton University undergraduate designed an atomic bomb for his term paper. When American nuclear scientists said it would work, the FBI confiscated his paper and classified it. Few months later he was contacted by French and Pakistani officials who offered to buy his design. He got an "A".
RPW4 TIL of a Price is Right episode where a player got the showcase exactly right and was accused of cheating. He studied the reoccurring prizes at home beforehand and memorized their prices.
kDl5 TIL Karl Marx sent a letter to Abraham Lincoln congratulating him on causing the death of slavery
RxLj TIL Bill Broyles, the writer for the movie Castaway, chose to deliberately strand himself for one week on an isolated beach in the Sea of Cortez, to force himself to search for water and food, and obtain his own shelter. During this time, a volleyball washed up on shore.
l7aZV TIL: Cahuide was an Inca nobleman who defended the Sacsayhuaman fortress from the Spanish and allied Indians in 1536. A brave captain, he fought to the bitter end, choosing to jump from the tower rather than surrender.