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TIL about longest tennis match in history, Isner beat Mahut 70-68, in Wimbledon 2010; it lasted 46h34m spanned over 3 days (match was suspended twice due to fading light); this can't happen again due to new tiebreaker rule introduced in 2019

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69DrZ TIL in 1995 John Steele visited Al Mac's Bar in Toronto, but found he didn't have enough money for a tip. So he left a lottery ticket with his favorite waitress, Tracy Dalton, & told her he'd share any winnings with her. The ticket was a winner & ended up being worth $185K. The two split it evenly.
logPK TIL Made up of women, the 588th Russian Night Bomber Regiment flew missions behind German lines, in planes built of wood and canvas with no radio or radar, their bombs held to the wings by wire. The Germans referred to them as the Night Witches.
WkGoX TIL that a Russian airliner pilot let his 15 year old son fly the Airbus A310 setting off a chain of events in which resulted in the crashing of Aeroflot Flight 593 killing 75.
xVAlw TIL Jeanne Barret, expert botanist, was the first woman to have completed a voyage of circumnavigation of the globe. She enlisted in Bougainville expedition (1766-1769) disguised as a man and supposedly as her boyfriend's valet, the botanist Philibert Commerson
jGeE TIL In London from 1682 one could buy fire insurance: you attached a metal plate to their building ensuring that if there were a fire their insurance company would fight to extinguish it. If the building wasn’t insured the fire wasn’t put out unless it threatened to spread to an insured building.