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TIL about a mountain range in the Balkans called the Accursed Mountains, named for their wild and inhospitable nature.

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rRaJo TIL, Newt Gingrich met his first wife when she was his geometry teacher in high school, Gingrich later divorced her while she was in the hospital recovering from cancer. Gingrich eventually married the women he was cheating on his first wife with, they are still married today.
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