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TIL that New York once banned women from smoking in public to “save their souls.”

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kOvg4 TIL that a skull-shaped asteroid is passing by earth after Halloween. The last time it came close to earth was Halloween 2015, within 300,000 miles.
woVoM TIL that a trio of drunken boys decided to sail out to sea looking for a girl they saw at a sports competition event. They ended up sailing for more than seven weeks and drifted 1300 km off course before being rescued by a tuna boat. They all survived by drinking beer, eating coconuts and a bird.
j6ovn TIL Isaac Newton was also a member of the Parliament of England for Cambridge University in 1689 and 1701, but according to some accounts, his only comments were to complain about a cold draught in the chamber and request that the window be closed
yeWX TIL that Bud Welch, whose daughter was killed in the OK City Bombing, found himself able to forgive Timothy McVeigh after meeting McVeigh’s father and realizing that he too was about to lose a child.
gg58 TIL that American psycho writer Bret Easton Ellis tried to order cocaine from his dealer but instead of texting him, he accidentally tweeted it to his 350,000 followers