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TIL Hollywood Legend Marlene Dietrich's list of sexual conquests included Gary Cooper, John Wayne, John F. Kennedy, George Bernard Shaw, and female speedboat racer Marion Carstairs

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xVmDo TIL that the longest time for a traffic jam occurred in August, 2010 and lasted for 12 days and was 62 miles (100 KM) long.
1aYld TIL Roy Orbison wrote the biggest hit of his career after asking his first wife, Claudette, if she needed cash for the market. His writing partner interjected “pretty women don’t need money.” As Orbison watched Claudette go to the market by “walking down the street”, he wrote “Oh, Pretty Woman.”
7m4Z TIL in 1984 Michael Larson was a contestant on Press Your Luck. Using the stop-motion on his VCR, he noticed that the presumed random patterns of the game board weren’t actually random, and memorized the sequences. He won 45 consecutive spins and earned a total of $110,237 in cash and prizes
5Y6kR TIL after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, which killed 200.000 people, UN peacekeepers from Nepal were sent to the country. Sadly, the peacekeepers brought cholera with them leading to a massive outbreak which infected 800.000 people, and killing at least 9000.
mxKVY TIL there are plans to dig a tunnel under the Baltic Sea, directly linking Finland and Estonia's capital cities by rail