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TIL a civil war veteran lived to see thermonuclear weapons and I Love Lucy

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j6ZpX TIL In the 2008 Jeopardy! Teen Tournament, two contests both named Rachel made it to the final. To avoid confusion when calling on the contestants to answer, one of them went by Steve for the games.
xO47 TIL John Cena has granted more than 400 Make-a-Wish requests, more than anyone in the charity’s history.
WgpL TIL Most Iranian women don’t wear niqabs. The government once considered them to be a “badge of backwardness.”
pMyb TIL that the elusive “dark matter” in the universe could be detected by looking for time glitches in the existing network of GPS satellites. One researcher is already mining 15 years’ worth of GPS timing data for its signature.
R0G4 TIL 65% of the world drinks goat milk over cow milk.