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TIL Former US first lady Jane Pierce was extremely reluctant to move into the White House. Before her husband Franklin Pierce became president, she prayed every night that he would lose the presidential election. She is said to have fainted upon hearing the news of his nomination.

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ADYo7 TIL that the world's oldest known dildo is a siltstone 20-centimeter phallus from the Upper Palaeolithic period 30,000 years ago that was found in Hohle Fels Cave near Ulm, Germany.
9YkBm TIL in 2001 the Crown Prince of Nepal shot dead 9 members of his family at a dinner party, including the King and Queen. He then shot himself and died three days later.
p8pGp TIL after the death of the 4th-century BCE Mausolus of Caria (in Anatolia), his wife and sister Artemisia reigned for 2 years. She built the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus (one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World) in his honour, and in her grief is said to have mixed his ashes in her daily drink
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D19gv TIL that yawning and stretching at the same time is called "pandiculation." It's apparently very important in waking up our nervous system.