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TIL Gordie Howe played 32 seasons of professional hockey in a career that spanned 5 decades

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N7PbQ TIL of Maudie Hopkins, the last widow of a Civil War veteran, she died at 93 in 2008. At 19 years old, she married 86-year-old William M. Cantrell on February 2nd, 1934.
GJJ7 TIL: Grasshopper Mice have adaptation to turn scorpion venom into a pain-killer. They now prey on scorpions.
1aoX8 TIL that director Stanley Kubrick was once chased off the set of 2001: A Space Odyssey by one of his own stuntmen
ljwK TIL 27-year-old Randall Jordan-Aparo died after being doused with chemical agents three times in 13 minutes while in a Florida confinement cell. Florida prison officials and the Florida Department oF Law Enforcement concluded there was no relationship between the gassing and Jordan-Aparo’s death
wLZe6 TIL that Alaska, Hawaii, Maine and Vermont have banned billboard advertising.