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TIL the world’s oldest functioning light bulb was built in 1900 and is still burning.

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GYjW5 TIL the closest relatives to Primates, aside from flying lemurs and treeshrews, are rodents and lagomorths (rabbits, hares, pikas)
yXle TIL in 1945 a group of Soviet school children presented a US Ambassador with a carved US Seal as a gesture of friendship. It hung in his office for 7 years before discovering it contained a listening device.
dQJj TIL That a TPS report actually stands for “Testing Procedure Specification” or document IEEE 829, something Mike Judge really used when he was an engineer working on military jets out of college.
E1Rm7 TIL that most of the water scenes in the titanic were filmed in a large pool.
6EQP8 TIL Scottie Pippen, of Chicago Bulls Fame, was given the nickname “No Tippin Pippen” for his lack of tipping waiters and once tried to haggle with strippers on the amount they were charging.