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TIL of US president Grover Cleveland's wife. She was the youngest first lady, the first to be married in the White House, and the first to give birth while her husband was president. Grover met her shortly after she was born, when he was 27.

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x6Nkw TIL that brothers Alfonso and Gonzalo, great-grandsons of Queen Victoria through their mother, Victoria Eugenie, died in almost exactly the same way—a car crash that led to fatal internal bleeding—almost exactly four years apart. They both had hemophilia, a genetic condition.
gN1W TIL Nikola Tesla once paid an overdue hotel bill with a ‘working model’ of his 'death beam’. He warned the management never to open it without taking proper precautions to avoid detonation. After his death in 1943, the box was pried open & they found nothing but a bunch of old lab components
pY8Yp TIL that Nazi Germany operated jet-powered bombers, and that they were the last Luftwaffe planes to fly over the UK.
YjJZ TIL There’s a book that contains a million random numbers and little else. Published in 1955, it was an important work in the field of statistics and randomization.
OGMwR TIL of a dog that was given plastic surgery to increase its quality of life and potential for rehoming after its nose was disfigured in a skirmish due to lack of food