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TIL a Scottish widower seeking female companionship set 2,000 bottled messages adrift, but ceased the practice in response to public complaints and an investigation by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency.

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wLKWJ TIL that Texas seceded from Mexico because slavery was illegal in Mexico
d8WdK TIL about the Doomsday Algorithm - a method to mentally calculate the day of the week given any date based on the fact that 4/4, 6/6, 8/8, 10/10, 12/12 all occur on the same day of the week regardless of the year.
yQRg8 TIL about "Conflicting Out" - the act of interviewing several top attorneys as a tactic to prevent one's spouse from hiring those attorneys in a divorce, as it creates a conflict of interest.
M715a TIL that despite its cultural presence as the doomsday scenario, current models and estimates believe that a nuclear winter is not a realistic outcome following a nuclear war. One analysis said so many successive things would need to go wrong it was akin to a coin landing on heads 40 times straight
awnwy TIL British intelligence chiefs tried to guess Hitler’s plans by studying his horoscope.