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TIL Jefferson Davis, president of the confederacy, was 19 years older than his second wife when they married. On their honeymoon, he took her to his dead first wife’s grave. Charmer.

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ne1Kb TIL FOIA requests reveal that the US Government has had a hand in the production of thousands of hours of entertainment in the last few decades including many feature films such as those in the Marvel franchise. They have insisted on edits to scripts which portray the government in a negative light.
ne4yG TIL about one of the rare cases of the Lazarus Syndrome. Walter Williams, 78, from Lexington, Mississippi, declared by a coroner at his home on 26 February 2014. Once at a funeral home, he was found to be moving. The next day he was well enough to be talking with family, but died fifteen days later.
Y76oB TIL the children of 8 time Olympic Gold Medalist Usain Bolt are named Olympia Lightning Bolt, Thunder Bolt and Saint Leo Bolt respectively.
OoZka TIL That Isaac Newton was the one who discovered that white light is comprised of all of the colors. He even created a telescope that counteracts the effect this was having on refracting telescopes.
P1WGe TIL of the estimated 20 million tons of gold in the oceans, worth $700 Trillion. All the gold humans ever mined is 208,874 tons.