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TIL: The longest known and recorded attack of hiccups lasted 68 years

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j0aj TIL that Vanessa Carlton wrote the riff for “A Thousand Miles” in 1998. Upon hearing it her mother told her “Vanessa, that’s a hit song.”
16DoW TIL that in 2012 Slovak Lawmakers made a public poll asking for the name for a new bridge between Slovakia and Austria. 'Chuck Norris Bridge' won overwhelmingly
e0j7D TIL Willie Simmons has served 38 years for a $9 robbery due to Alabama's Habitual Offender rule because he had prior non-violent convictions. His change dot org petition has 2.3 million signatures (including mine!)
ADaPa TIL of Dolly Oesterreich, a Milwaukee woman who kept a voluntary sex slave in the attics of her two homes, her husband and 2 lovers none the wiser, for about 10 years. Despite the murder of her husband and her attempts to cover it up she was never convicted and eventually died at the age of 80.
WJV9 TIL Many investigators believed that some if not all the crew of The Challenger disaster survived the explosion unharmed and were conscious for the full 2 minutes 45 seconds it took for the Crew Cabin to return to Earth, before being killed by collision force when the module hit the sea.