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TIL Diana Armstrong, who holds the world record for longest fingernails, 42 ft, vowed to never cut her nails again after her 16 year old daughter passed from an asthma attack. The two had enjoyed doing their manicures together.

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WXJ9 TIL in 2012 a 6-year-old girl threw a temper tantrum so extreme she was handcuffed and taken to jail from her kindergarten class.
X0wx6 TIL to mark 10 years of North Korean-UK relations, 'Bend it like Beckham' was broadcast on state TV becoming the first-ever Western-made film to air on television in North Korea.
v1yNR TIL at George Washington's 1787 farewell party, 56 people drank 60 bottles of claret, 54 bottles of Madeira, 8 bottles of hard cider, 8 bottles of whiskey, 22 bottles of porter, and 7 large bowls of alcoholic punch; the bar tab cost $15 000 in today's money.
Xg8 TIL Yellowstone was the world’s first national park, and sometimes called “America’s best idea.”
mnQo TIL The feeling of people that children “these days” are spoiled can be dated all the back to at least Socrates