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TIL the full wedding saying is "Speak your piece now or forever hold your peace."

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nAg7 TIL Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize, but also the first person (man or woman) ever to win the award twice and for achievements in two distinct scientific fields; Chemistry and Physics.
E1JEX TIL that King Tutankhamun (14th Century BC Pharaoh) was entombed with a dagger of "extraterrestrial origin." Advanced spectrometry tests strongly suggest the iron, nickel, and cobalt contained in the blade are from a meteorite that crashed near the the Kharga Oasis about 200 km west of the Nile.
ANoka TIL that in ‘98 J.J. Abrams and the director of Cloverfield created a TV show about a young woman going to college called Felicity. It lasted four seasons and ends with a five-episode long time travel arc.
Zpamo TIL Caroline Dhavernas (from Hannibal and Wonderfalls) is the voice of Montreal REM metro train network. Her mother, Michèle Deslauriers, was the previous voice.
pYJve TIL Iceland’s earliest settlers were probably Irish monks.