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TIL Scrabbles highest recorded single play score is 365 or 392 based on dictionary used. Its theorised the maximum single word play maybe worth up to 4046 points and the longest game recorded by Guinness was 153 hours, this won't be beaten as the publishers deemed duration records dangerous

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nWVN7 TIL of Toni Gardiner from Suffolk in England who worked as a secretarial assistant on the set of Lawrence of Arabia, during which time she met the King of Jordan. They married and had four children, the first of which is now King Abdullah II of Jordan.
6EyYX TIL that the northern lights shows us why there is life on Earth.
VM5yZ TIL of Brian Zimmerman, who gained national attention in 1983 for being elected mayor of Crabb, Texas, a town outside of Houston, at the age of 11. He won in a landslide with 23 out of only 30 votes cast. He ran on formally incorporating the town to avoid annexation, but was unsuccessful.
Vw7p TIL the military word “mayday” meaning “emergency” comes from the identically pronounced French phrase “m'aidez”, meaning “help me”.
0wRXv TIL that Buzz Aldrin’s mother (named Marion Moon) shot herself before his lunar flight because she didn’t know if she could cope with his impending fame. He then fell into depression and alcoholism after his flight.