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TIL the first woman elected president of a country was Vigdís Finnbogadóttir of Iceland, who won the 1980 presidential election as well as three others to also become the longest-serving non-hereditary female head of state in history (almost exactly 16 years in office)

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R5Moj TIL of Ladino, an amalgamation of Hebrew and Old Spanish spoken by some of the descendants of Sephardic Jews expelled from Spain.
awMbJ TIL that some people remember their dreams only in black and white.
YRxA TIL if officials awarded Lance Armstrong’s 2005 Tour De France title to the next fastest finisher who has never been linked to doping, they’d have to give it to the 23rd place finisher
ma9M TIL of an experiment in a hospital where the sign at a hand-washing station was changed from “Hand hygiene prevents you from catching diseases” to “Hand hygiene prevents patients from catching diseases” resulting in a 45% increase in the use of soap or hand sanitizer.
15k7 TIL there is a legendary hobo rockclimber known as ‘Chongo’ who, while illegally living inside Yosemite National Park almost a decade, made a life by scavenging food, ascending sheer rock faces and writing a book called “The Homeless Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics”.