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TIL that Woodrow Wilson's wife, Edith, was de facto president of the USA for a year and five months, making her the first de facto female US president

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gr5NX TIL Helium was detected on the sun before it was detected on Earth. That's why it was named for Helios, the Greek god of the sun.
woZ7M TIL that Luxembourg, a country right in the middle of western Europe, has a smaller population than the state of Vermont, the 49th US state in population.
oRrRr TIL according to Pliny, Roman Emperor Tiberius once became so enamored by the sculpture "Apoxyomenos" that he took the sculpture out of the public baths of Agrippa and into his own private bedroom. After public uproar, he placed it back into the baths out of shame.
D1xDv TIL in 1970, Billy Joel wrote a suicide note and attempted to commit suicide by drinking furniture polish, stating it looked ‘tastier than bleach’. He later published his suicide note as a song in his first album, “Cold Spring Harbor”. The song would be titled, “Tomorrow is Today.”
oRkpW TIL that the first ever morse code message was “what hath god wrought?”