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TIL that the marriage of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter is the longest presidential marriage in US history. They had already been married for 30 years when Carter was sworn in as president in 1977.

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805L TIL two esteemed scientists suspected time traveling culprits to be sabotaging mankind’s discovery of the Higgs boson.
4Xa5g TIL of "starlight tours", a practice of the Saskatoon police that involved arresting Canadian indigenous people and dropping them off oustide city limits to freeze to death. It went from the 1970's to the early 2000's.
r8Le TIL after being struck by lightning, golfer Lee Trevino was asked if he would do anything different to avoid it. “I’d stand in the fairway with my one iron pointed at the sky,” he said. “Not even God can hit the one iron.”
kOdb5 TIL: Bill Watterson never licensed Calvin and Hobbes. Anything sold with Calvin and Hobbes on them, such as the Bumper stickers depicting Calvin urinating on something are unlicensed knock-offs. He once said: "Only thieves and vandals have made money on Calvin and Hobbes merchandise."
Qx5a TIL Gary Lineker once said “Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.”