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TIL The oldest recorded marriage in the USA is from 1565, between a Spaniard and a free black woman.

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0d0Jp TIL that before his involvment in the Nazi Party, Adolf Hitler was extremely lazy, never had a real job, dropped out of school and was very poor for many years. At one point he was sleeping on park benches and begging for money and later lived at a home for poor men for a few years.
4XBZR TIL the urban legend of Atari burying hundreds of thousands of ET cartridges in a New Mexico landfill actually happened. An excavation found them in 2014.
gkA9 TIL Russians buy baseball bats almost exclusively for violent purposes such as resolving traffic disputes, to the point car salons have begun selling bats, and 500,000 baseball bats were sold while only one baseball total was sold in all of Russia during 2014.
XExM6 TIL Luxembourg won the Eurovision Song contest five times with French-language songs. When they tried switching to Luxembourgish songs they hit the last spot and quickly switched back to French.
DDEg TIL Nelson Mandela was long time friends with Moammar Gaddafi and Fidel Castro.