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TIL that Great White sharks can live up to 70 years in the wild.

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wLQnW Today I learned that the term white elephant came from the king of Thailand giving giant white elephants as gifts to people he did not like in hopes of bankrupting the receiver of the gift with the expenses of caring for an elephant.
KYZk6 TIL 17-20 people on the waiting list for an organ transplant die every day in the United States and only slightly more than half of the 100,000+ people on the list are expected to receive an organ within five years.
neERW TIL that Kirk Douglass, the father of Michael Douglass (who is 75 years old), is STILL alive. Born in 1916, he is 102 years old and currently one of the last surviving stars of the film industry's Golden Age.
l4yB TIL that every person in the “Serbia Strong” video is a convicted war criminal of the Bosnian Genocide (Individual trials posted in the comments)
x6Kvw TIL Barry Manilow wrote and performed the iconic ad jingles "Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there", and "I am stuck on Band-Aid, 'cause Band-Aid's stuck on me!" (for which he adopted a child like voice) and McDonald's "you deserve a break today"