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TIL a man was arrested for attacking his wife with a turkey sandwich.

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nWgB TIL The Gaia Hypothesis, the idea that the Earth is a self-regulating organism, was partially developed by Lynn Margulis, a.k.a. Carl Sagan’s wife.
BkJb TIL during the Black Plague, some plague doctors were officially commissioned and paid to walk the streets and differentiate between the living and the dead by poking bodies with sticks.
4XJD5 TIL that in 1914, thousands of allied troops were transported from Paris to the Battle of the Marne in local taxis.
9KdQ TIL in 2007 Islamic scholars in Malaysia spent a year working out how the country’s first astronaut could pray facing Mecca. He was allowed to save his Ramadan fasting till his return
69gXQ TIL Several BP and Transocean executives were on board Deepwater Horizon during the catastrophic explosion. A few of their intentions included maintenance planning, presenting a safety campaign, and congratulating the senior staff of the rig for 7 years of operations without a lost time incident.