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TIL that the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island was eerily foreshadowed by the events in the movie "The China Syndrome", which was released only 12 DAYS EARLIER!!

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e0xL5 TIL that tensions between the US and UK nearly escalated to war over the killing of a pig in 1859. An American farmer on a disputed island found the pig eating potatoes in his garden and shot it, and after the British threatened arrest, the settlers called for help. Both sides sent major forces.
8eGe4 TIL of the Erin-go-Bragh passage to Australia. Ever the witty folks, an Irish passenger nicknamed the ship the Erin go slow, as the trip took 196 days. The longest passage to Australia from the (former) UK.
X0OwE TIL the last American Civil War widow died in 2020. Helen Viola Jackson was 17 when she married 93 year old veteran James Bolin. They married so that the Jackson would be eligible for Bolin's pension after the teenager helped the elderly Bolin with chores. Jackson never applied for the pension.
6lmX TIL NASA Wants to Send a Submarine to Titan
P1JXO TIL Herman Talmadge, outgoing Governor Ellis Arnall and Lt. Governor Melvin Thompson all claimed to be the rightful Governor of Georgia after the death of Governor-elect Eugene Talmadge. The crisis was only resolved when the Georgia Supreme Court declared Thompson to be the sole Governor.