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TIL National Geographic hires an archivist who has worked by himself in the magazine office basement for over 30 years. He has handled hundreds of thousands of photographs and is responsible for about eight million images in the vintage collection

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GYaYj TIL that there are more historic artefacts under the sea than in all of the world’s museums.
b6MBa TIL a recurring joke on the Benny Hill Show was Benny aggressively patting a bald headed old man during the handcranked sketches. Benny was actually trying wave cigarette smoke away from the actor, Jackie Wright, who chain smoked constantly during filming.
GYaNJ TIL that during filming of Titanic, the cast and crew ate chowder laced with PCP, leading to a hospital conga Line.
yQKJ TIL Elvis Presley recorded over 600 songs during his lifetime, but he didn’t write any of them.
9kQ7 TIL that Afrikaans, spoken in South Africa, is the worlds youngest language