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TIL that Paine Wingate was a founding father who attended the Continental Congress, served in both the Senate and the House, and died at age 98. (After being born in 1739, the same decade as Washington)

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grnGy TIL Luke Helder, who in 2002 planted pipe bombs in various places to draw a smiley face across America, is still being held indefinitely at a federal mental health facility after being declared incompetent to stand trial
M7Qa TIL that in 1953 the United States government detonated a nuclear bomb in Utah more powerful than Little Boy of Hiroshima. The bomb, nicknamed Harry, was known to the Utahans as Dirty Harry because of the large amount of fallout.
R7MBa TIL the wet-nurse chosen by Queen Victoria to nurse her son, the future king Edward VII, years later would use her husband’s razor blade to slit the throats of her six children.
gMLwW TIL that there are many more units of data bigger than a terabyte. 1 Yottabyte is the biggest unit of data and it's so big that it is 1208925819614629.25 Gigabytes or 1208925819614 Terabytes of data.
BrJod TIL Keanu Reeves was a bass player for a band called Dogstar and also opened for Bon Jovi in 1995.