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TIL A Finnish mathematician spends three month designing the “world’s most difficult Sudoku” and claims there’s only one answer; a 69 year old Chinese farmer solves it and provides a second answer in just 3 days

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DQ8Mg TIL that Barrie Chase is the only actress from 1963's "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World" that is still alive today. She is the lady dancing with Sylvester Marcus and is currently 91 years old.All other actors, minor and major, have died.
bDop TIL Since 2005, the Parents Television Council has deemed Family Guy the Worst TV Show of the Week on at least 40 occasions, and has filed many complaints to the FCC for “oblique sexual innuendo”. Seth MacFarlane responded “it was like getting hate mail from Hitler.”
R71ml TIL The birthday-number effect is the subconscious tendency of people to prefer the numbers in the date of their birthday over other numbers. First reported in 1997 by Japanese psychologists Shinobu Kitayama and Mayumi Karasawa, the birthday-number effect has been replicated in various countries. ????
Yn4G TIL A Frenchwoman, Jeanne de Clisson, became a pirate in the 1300’s for revenge after her husband was beheaded. Selling her lands to buy 3 ships, they were painted black with red sails. Hunting French ships, when she caught nobles, she personally beheaded them with an axe.
KOagw TIL about the Windscale Fire in the UK back in 1957 in which the first civilian Nuclear Power Station built caught on fire causing which eventually resulted in 240 deaths from radiation poisoning.