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TIL that despite generally being assumed to be and usually portrayed as an elderly woman, Miss Havisham from Great Expectations was only in her mid-30s at the beginning of the novel according to Charles Dickens' own notes.

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XG4k TIL That the danish Crown prince Frederik is a fully trained operative soldier of the danish Frømandskorps (The danish version of the american Navy SEALS).
WkZ8B TIL in 1922 Raymond DeWalt invented the Radial Arm Saw, with the first saw blade driven directly by a motor. Naming it the "Wonder-Worker," he then started the DeWalt company which still exists today. Once a versatile staple of home workshops, the Radial Arm Saw is in extremely limited use today.
Ol5a TIL people of the Middle Ages widely accepted the Earth was spherical. The notion they thought the world was flat is actually a misconception.
GA7RG TIL Just two weeks before the 1892 U.S. Presidential election, First Lady Caroline Harrison died. The voters were unsympathetic and Benjamin Harrison lost re-election. Their daughter Mary served out the term as First Lady.
rNW8w TIL In 1769 Alexander Wilson used a Gregorian telescope, with a 26 inch focus and 112 power, to observe an extraordinary sunspot. He concluded that it was a vast excavation in the luminous matter of the Sun