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TIL: Graca Machel, is the only woman in the world’s history to become the first lady of 2 different countries. She was married to the former president of Mozambique, Samora Machel, in 1975 who was killed in a plane crash in 1986. In 1998 she married Nelson Mandela former South African president.

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wL9WW TIL Chroniclers of Germanic peoples traced the ancestry of their kings back to the god Wōden (Odin). If such descents were true, Queen Elizabeth II would be a descendant of Woden, via the kings of Wessex.
rRWWo TIL organizers of the Woodstock festival claimed to the authorities in Bethel, NY, that less than 50,000 people would turn up, despite selling 186,000 tickets in advance. The festival ultimately drew an audience of over 400,000, and both Bethel and NY State banned such events in its wake.
xVYj0 TIL, The LHC (Large Hadron Collider) propels Protons so quickly, that it takes less than 90 Microseconds for a Proton to travel 26.7 km (16.6m) around the main ring. In just one full second, a Proton will make 11,245 revolutions.
7dgX TIL Biologists at Osaka University in Japan have discovered a new way to grow the many separate tissues that make up the human eyeball, including retinas, corneas, the eye’s lens, using stem cells extracted from a small sample of adult skin
5YRXn TIL that Tiger Moths can beat their wings in a way that noise cancels a hunting bat's echolocation attempts to find it.