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TIL of the Continuum hypothesis : An hypothesis that has been proven unprovable under current mathematics.

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l7JrN TIL that in 2004 Alicia Esteve Head, under the alias Tania Head, pretended to be a 9/11 survivor, created an online support group and ultimately was named President of the World Trade Center Survivors' Network before being discovered as a fraud in 2007 by The New York Times.
pwO4 TIL American presidential widows are entitled to secret service protection and the ability to mail letters without postage until they remarry or die
WkBDL TIL that the American accent is actually closer to the English accent of Shakespeare than current British English
XEKZk TIL That thunderstorms can cause headaches due to changes in barometric pressure.
oRYo TIL Muslims actually did dance in the streets to celebrate the 9/11 attacks. The video on the news wasn’t fake.