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TIL Clint Eastwood served as mayor of a town in California after campaigning against an ordinance banning the sale of ice cream.

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xVKjD TIL the greenland shark has the longest known lifespan of all vertebrate species (300–500 years). The species reaches sexual maturity at 150 years of age. Some of the sharks sampled by researchers had been alive for nearly 400 years and were estimated to be born between 1504 and 1744.
VBBR0 TIL There was a mass phenomenon from the 14th to 17th century in Europe called "Dancing Mania" where people started dancing for days or weeks until they collapsed or even died
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