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TIL: Marrying an older man shortens a woman’s lifespan, but having a younger husband reduces it even more

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jN4Gn TIL about Dorino Serafini from Pesaro, Italy. Still the only man in F1 History to have a 100% podium record. He finished joint 2nd at the 1950 Italian GP for Ferrari with his teammate Alberto Ascari (only italian man to win an F1 title for Ferrari). The race was won by Luigi Fagioli.
KOw5J TIL in 1946 there was a “Battle of Athens” in a small town in Tennessee. In the face of a corrupt political machine taking over the local government, a group of citizens mostly consisting of WWII veterans took up arms and overthrew the government officials, reinstating free elections.
ZpKeY TIL total solar eclipses happen only once every four hundred years, and the next one is on 4/8!
rN0ww TIL that NASA’s computers for the Apollo 11 mission in 1969 had less processing power than a modern smartphone. The guidance computer had only 64KB of memory and ran at 0.043 MHz.
rRL6w TIL virtually every single way of saying 'tea' in each language comes from the Chinese character 茶 (chá), reflecting the origins and widespread trade of tea from China.