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TIL Andrew Jackson gave his 21-year-old niece the role of First Lady when his wife died. She was praised for the food and alcohol she served during her tenure.

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6EVGw TIL Anthony Daniels, who endured years of discomfort in the C-3PO costume, was so annoyed by Alan Tudyk (Rogue One) playing K-2SO in the comfort of a motion-capture suit that he cursed at Tudyk. Tudyk later joked that a "fuck you" from Daniels was among the highest compliments he had ever received.
Y7vbx TIL about the School of the Air, a term used for radio-borne (now Internet-based) correspondence schools that teach children who live in the most remote parts of the Australian outback, where there aren't enough people for a regular school.
gJQA TIL that Queen Elizabeth II had to use ration coupons to buy the material for her wedding gown
0PRA TIL that as millions of North Koreans go hungry, the country’s rulers have taken up the habit of having McDonald’s hamburgers flown in daily from China (on North Korea’s national airline).
d8No8 TIL two men paid €1.5 million in counterfeit money for a painting, only to find out that the painting was fake.