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TIL woolly mammoths were still alive while the Great Pyramids were being built.

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P1x5J TIL that the grave of Harry Potter, a British soldier killed in a 1930s Palestinian revolt, has become a tourist attraction for simply sharing a name with the main character of JK Rowlings' series
Y71kd TIL that in 1984, a British grandmother made the world's first online at-home consumer purchase using her TV remote. She was ordering groceries from the local Tesco.
mxX6o TIL JUUL is the only electronic cigarette product found with nicotine concentrations high enough to be toxic in standard cytotoxicity tests. The nicotine found in JUUL products is about 61 milligrams per milliliter of fluid in pods—equivalent to more than one pack of conventional cigarettes.
y8ZX TIL in 2007 a report was published in Ireland which stated that over half of Ireland’s native gypsy population - called Travellers - do not live past the age of 39 years.
kJ767 TIL of chinese warlord Zhang Zōngchāng, aka Old Eighty-Six due to a rumor that his erect member was as long as a stack of 86 mexican silver dollars, which were a common currency in 1920’s China.