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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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16x08 TIL about Camille Armand Jules Marie de Polignac. He was a French nobleman who fought for the Confederates in the American Civil War. When he died in 1913, he was the last surviving Confederate major-general.
nWWvr TIL That when legendary Rolling Stone writer Ben Fong Torres got married the wedding photographer was Annie Leibovitz.
9Yn8G TIL that Steve Irwin did a collaboration with The Wiggles!
VMKaG TIL that the 2018 American superhero film Deadpool 2 was nominated for fifteen Golden Trailer Awards and won four of them.
erPg TIL that Nikola Tesla predicted in 1926 that one day “We shall be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective of distance… we shall see and hear one another as perfectly as though we were face to face” through devices able to fit into a vest pocket.