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TIL the longest word in English is the full chemical name of the protein titin (189,819 letters) - and there’s a 3.5hr long video of someone saying it aloud

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VMAj8 TIL In 2011 Samoa skipped from being the last to first country to see the sun each day. So now they celebrate New year's first. They did it to be more inline with NZ & Australia for commercial reasons
xr8k TIL that when Martha Washington recalled the two saddest days of her life the first was December 14, 1799 when her husband died. The second was in January 1801 when Thomas Jefferson visited Mt Vernon. “Next to the loss of her husband” Jefferson’s visit was the “most painful occurrence of her life.”
wd87 TIL that Gladiator games had referees who could stop fights entirely or let fighters rest and freshen up.
W7MxL TIL the Wright Brothers (airplane inventors) did not finish high school
0wpQM TIL that Frank Sinatra’s publicist auditioned and paid girls $5 to scream at his early performances to get the crowd excited.