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TIL that Gov George Wallace of Alabama’s wife had cancer, but she didn’t know because he didn’t tell her. Doctors back then only told the husband.

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PYMWV TIL that former MLB player Larry Walker was obsessed with the number 3. He set his alarm for 33 minutes past the hour, took practice swings in multiples of 3, wore the number 3, was married Nov 3 at 3:33pm, and once bought 33 tickets for disadvantaged kids to sit in section 333 of the ballpark.
R7yE1 TIL an unknown black organic material was found preserved on 2 altars at the entrance to a shrine's holy of holies, part of a fortress guarding the southern border of biblical Judah. Testing them found frankincense and cannabis, the first time the latter has been identified in the Ancient Near East.
78gGX TIL in Japan 7/11 operates banks
1EGD TIL that when Einstein arrived in Paris by train in 1922,many high profile reporters, diplomats were waiting for him on the platform. Instead, he sneaked out the back car and off down the tracks, laughing “like a child”.
DQ1Rp TIL The Gobi Desert is expanding through desertification, most rapidly on the southern edge into China, which is seeing 3,600 km² (1,390 mi²) of grassland overtaken every year.