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TIL in 2009 Nine women were rescued from what they thought was a Big Brother reality show house but turned out to be a criminal organization.

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JYgM1 TIL After the deaths of his brothers JFK and RFK, Ted Kennedy became the sole patriarch to the Kennedy family. On the same day his 12-year-old son was having his cancer-laden leg amputated, Ted had to rush down to lead his niece, RFK’s daughter, down the aisle at her wedding.
b5v4 TIL that pistol dueling with wax bullets was once an Olympic sport.
gMWw7 TIL that people who believe that obesity is caused by a lack of exercise are more likely to be overweight than those who believe it's caused by a poor diet, because they tend to consume more food on average.
XL1R TIL in 1945 a group of Soviet school children presented a US Ambassador with a carved US Seal as a gesture of friendship. It hung in his office for 7 years before discovering it contained a listening device.
LkQrZ TIL Fred Phelps of the Westboro Baptist Church subscribed to a Calvinist doctrine known as "equal ultimacy," which holds that there is no free will and that God deliberately causes some people to be righteous and others to be wicked.