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TIL Jesse James once paid off a widow's mortgage and saved her from foreclosure because she gave him food. He made sure she got a receipt from the banker and then robbed the man a mile down the road.

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1aJYr TIL of a Nuclear Weapons Accident that occurred on March 10, 1956. A B-47 Stratojet carrying two plutonium cores was lost over the Mediterranean. Despite an extensive search, the plane and it's cargo was not located and it's fate remains unknown today.
90Gr TIL Judge Judy makes 45 million dollars per year, and only works 52 days.
LQYQd TIL the production, consumption, and distribution of porn is illegal in South Korea.
jNvmQ TIL that a famous philosophical thought experiment about the senses first discussed by John Locke in 1689 was performed IRL under controlled conditions in 2007, and Locke was proven right
R58A8 TIL Cardinal Richelieu is credited with the invention of the table knife