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TIL the longest wedding veil was over 63 football fields long, with by maria paraskeva, from cyprus in 2018

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rR0Qd TIL John Candy died a few days before the end of filming Wagons East, so according to Wiki, they used, "using a stunt double and special effects" to complete the film. Part of the special effects was just reusing a scene from earlier in the movie. The link is these scenes.
YwEB TIL when Switzerland added a vote-by-mail option, voter turnout actually decreased in smaller cantons. Sociologists believe that in-person voting created a social pressure in smaller communities to show up at the polls, and this pressure was removed when people could claim that they voted by mail.
0w7GA TIL: Stephen Lyon Crohn was a man that was born with a genetic mutation that allowed him to be immune to AIDS. He was also the great-nephew of Burril Bernard Crohn for whom Crohn's Disease is named.
w64P TIL that the first casualty of the Battle of Hastings was William the Conqueror’s jester. He allegedly taunted the English army by juggling his sword and was promptly killed for the display.
owVA [TIL] the Mongol Empire installed empire-wide messenger/postal stations 15-40 miles apart, stocked with food and fresh mounts that required passports for use, allowing for communication over the largest empire in history