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TIL Bride Jeni Stepien was walked down the aisle by the man who got her father's donated heart. Arthur Thomas got Michael Stepien's heart & the families kept in touch. When Arthur walked Jeni down the aisle, he suggested that she grip his wrist to feel the pulse from her father's heart.

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yQpXp TIL That the game Battleship dates back to turn of the 20th century, where is was played with just paper and pen. The game is said to have been played by Russian officers before WWI. A version using plastic pegs wasn't created until 1967.
ZXvB TIL Four AH-64 Apaches helicopters were destroyed by mortar fire in Iraq, because US soldiers took pictures of them landing at their base, and posted the pictures to the internet. But the pictures were geotagged, enabling the enemy to determine the exact location of the Apaches.
kOGad TIL the world record for the loudest thing ever shouted belongs to an Irish female teacher who shouted the word “quiet” at 121 decibels, the equivalent of a jet engine.
RO09 TIL that a group of ecologists, chefs, and diners are campaigning to eat lionfish, a fish decimating the native ecosystems and thought to be responsible for a drop in the biomass of native reef fish species by an average of 65 percent
W7yQB TIL that Hadrian renamed Jerusalem as Aelia Capitolina and converted Jewish temple to temple of Jupiter which caused a Jewish revolt against Roman Empire.