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TIL after incumbent West Virginia governor Bob Wise was caught having an affair with a government employee, the employee's husband got a divorce and ran in the primary, openly stating himself to be unqualified and only doing so to be a "sheer nuisance" to Bob Wise

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VNmG TIL; The Vatican City walls were built to keep out pirates.
d8GKE TIL for 200 years Polish cavalry had wings and were nicknamed “Angels of Death”.
ybyM TIL Stephen Fry was on a tour by the church of latter day saints when the tour guide said ‘in the afterlife all families will be reunited’. He replied 'And what happens if you’ve been good’. He was expelled from the tour.
69WWX TIL about the AMOC (Atlantic meridional overturning circulation). A current of warm water that flows from the south to the north of the Atlantic. If it gets warmer, it could have catastrophic effects on the Arctic. This week the UK recorded its highest ever temperatures in their part of the sea.
wLr4Y TIL scientists interested in aging joined the circulatory system of two mice together—one young, the other old—and studied the effects. The old mouse experienced reversed aging in muscle and in the brain. Researchers are keen to start clinical trials in humans.