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TIL Olivia Goldsmith, author of The First Wives Club died during a plastic surgery operation for a chin-tuck.

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1W44 TIL that 3 marathon runners ran across the entire Sahara - that’s an equivalent of 2 marathons/day for 111 days, totaling approximately 4,000 miles! They started at the Atlantic Ocean in Senegal and ended at the Red Sea in Cairo.
r57M TIL: Johannes Kepler, one of the greatest contributors to astronomy, couldn’t see the stars/planets due to small-pox he contracted as a child.
e0rnn TIL of a Great year. A period of time that lasts 25,772 years and measures the rotation of the earths axis.
EgkJx TIL the boy whose exorcism inspired "The Exorcist" later became a NASA engineer, where his contributions significantly supported the Apollo missions during the 1960s.
D1xBr TIL toilets and drains DO NOT rotate differently in the southern and northern hemisphere