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TIL that a widow of a civil war veteran died in 2008. She married her husband in 1934 when she was 19 years old and he was 86.

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bON9 TIL that Chef Gordon Ramsay originally aspired to be a professional soccer player, but then suffered a knee injury that he never fully recovered from. He then decided to follow his already growing interest in culinary education so he wouldn’t be known as “the football player with the gammy knee”.
6VOw TIL That in the United States it is illegal to transport Pornographic Materials over state lines. And is punishable by fine or imprisonment up to five years.
VBA4G TIL Rats laugh when tickled. The laughter is high pitched and beyond the range of human hearing
gMO54 TIL In 1994, the KKK applied to sponsor a section of the Interstate 55 highway near St. Louis, Missouri. The Supreme Court ruled the state could not refuse the KKK's sponsorship. But the state of Missouri took revenge by renaming the entire stretch of highway the "Rosa Parks Freeway."
R7yK4 TIL in 1859, the French government passed a law defining the frequency of musical notes, in the first move to standardize musical pitches.