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TIL that Diana Nyad, at the age of 64, became the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida. This was done unassisted.

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JYDpl TIL A WWI soldier injured in France in 1917, went on to marry the nurse that mistook him for a German spy and advised surgeons to take his life on the operating table. He accidentally spoke German to doctors while under a fever, and she took it as spy language. They were married for over 50 years.
VM6p0 TIL Johnny Cash wrote 'I Walk the Line' as a proclamation of fidelity to his first wife, Vivian Liberto, after being met with temptation while on tour with Elvis Presley.
16odX TIL that the Magyarab people are a community living in Nubia, along the Nile in Sudan and Egypt, that have distant Hungarian ancestors who intermarried with locals in the 16th century.
Gx5J TIL At the end of the South Park episode “Trapped in the Closet” All the names on the credits read either “John Smith” or “Jane Smith” due to Tom Cruise’s and Scientologists’ reputation of suing people.
78bLP TIL when Robert Atkins published "Dr. Atkins’ Diet Revolution" in 1972, his diet was labelled a fad, which implies something new-fangled. But low-carbohydrate, high-fat diets had been popular for over a century before that & were a method of weight loss endorsed by mainstream science until the 1960s