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TIL The last "Civil War Widow," Helen Viola Jackson, lived until 2020. Jackson was married to James Bolin, a 93-year-old Civil War veteran, at the age of seventeen and died just four years ago at the age of 101.

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Yp9Ov TIL that if you got into your car, turned on the ignition and drove up to the sky at 60 mph, it would take just one hour to get to outer space, according to astronomer Fred Hoyle. Of course, this is purely a theoretical, but it sure is fun to think about!
RYr6 TIL in 2012, a neon light was discovered behind a bathroom wall in a Los Angeles restaurant, which had been left on for 77 years, amounting to over $17,000 in electric bills
YpYZ7 TIL: The reason why pigs are the enemy of birds in Angry Birds is because at the time the game was being designed, the swine flu epidemic was in the news.
0WOv TIL Brett Favre has more victories as a starting NFL quarterback (186) than the Jacksonville Jaguars have as a franchise (140)
ay9b TIL that the word “Barbarian” was invented by the ancient Greeks as an insulting term for anyone who didn’t speak the Greek language - to their ears, everyone else sounded like they were just saying “bar bar bar” all the time