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TIL that before Zachary Taylor coined the term "First Lady", the President of the United States's wife was commonly referred to as the "Presidentress"

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5VAOB TIL about Percivall Pott and his discovery of the connection between scrotal cancer and chimney sweeps caused by exposure to soot
4XpJo TIL that the single oldest complete piece of music is actually from 1400BC. It's known as "Hurrian Hymn No. 6" and an example one can listen to is heavily contested over because it is one of about five "rival decipherments of the notation, each yielding entirely different results".
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8mQL TIL in 2014 a Greek woman was accidentally buried alive. She was found after a group of children heard screams coming from her grave.
0wZZR TIL there was once an underground network of pneumatic mail delivery tubes in New York City. Each tube could carry between 400 and 600 letters and traveled at 30-35 miles per hour.