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TIL that on April 18th, 1930 (Good Friday) the BBC announced that the world was indeed “Good” and there was nothing worth reporting in the news.

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DQw6e TIL James Longstreet’s (Confederate general and US Minister to the Ottoman Empire) second wife, Helen Dortch Longstreet, died in 1962 at the age of 99. They got married in 1897, he was 74 and she was 34. She was widowed in 1904, childless.
XEOeP TIL snake oil was introduced to the US by Chinese laborers who helped build the Transcontinental Railroad. Derived from the Chinese water snake, snake oil was rich in the omega-3 acids that help reduce inflammation and was quite effective, especially when used to treat arthritis and bursitis.
M7GDa TIL Annette Obrestad claims to have won a $4 180 person poker multi table tournament playing blind (only looking at her cards once) She went on to become the youngest person to win a World Series of Poker bracelet and held the record for the largest payout to a female player
9Yj6m TIL Sadie Hawkins is based off a comic where a dude has an ugly daughter who can’t find a husband so he forces all the men in town to race and the slowest one marries her
DexD TIL that, on average, happiness drops from around the age of 21 and doesn’t pick back up until the age of retirement.