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TIL there are only two living people left in the world that were born in the 1800’s.

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wLjN1 TIL a rodent that was said to have been extinct for 114 years showed up on the handrail at the front porch of a lodge in Columbia. It let researchers photograph it for two hours and then disappeared into the night and was never seen again.
R7lP1 TIL about Greg Nemitz, a man which claimed onwnership about the asteroid 433 EROS in 1993 and then when NASA landed a probe on the same asteroid he sent a bill of 20 dollars to NASA about parking on his property.
exen TIL that Ben & Jerry’s sends all of their ice cream waste to local farmers to be used as pig feed. The pigs love the ice cream, but they refuse to eat one flavor. Mint Oreo.
JkLB TIL of The Great Stink of London, where the smell of human shit in the River Thames was so bad that it halted parliament. 250 tons of limes were used to mask the odor.
rDad TIL: Kevin Smith quit smoking cigarettes in 2008 after taking up smoking cannabis after working with Seth Rogen on Zack and Miri Make a Porno.