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TIL In 2010, Andriej Ivanov, went to a bridge in Ufa, Russia to commit suicide. When he arrived there he saw Maria Petrova, climbing over the railing to attempt suicide. He stopped her from killing herself, and they later fell in love and planned on getting married.

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QNXWX TIL about Mexican woman Miriam Rodriguez who tracked the killers of her 14-year-old daughter Karen after she was abducted in 2012. She disguised herself to get their names & addresses & made excuses to meet their families. She was shot 12 times outside her house 10 May 2017, Mother’s Day in Mexico.
v178D TIL former first lady Helen Herron Taft declared that all waiters in the White House would need to have a full head of hair, and banned all bald-headed butlers from the dining room.
Z8MDo TIL of a North Korean defector who escaped to China, returned to see his family, then escaped again to Thailand, went to Argentina, then trekked through South and Central America to sneak into the US through Mexico. He is now a US citizen.
WknBo TIL that Fort Ross, built on the coast of California just north of San Francisco, was the southernmost Russian settlement in colonial North America from 1812 to 1841.
w598 TIL that the American accent of the English language was actually the same as the British accent during colonization. Over time, the British accent kept changing while the American stayed almost unchanged.