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TIL: Graham Crackers Were Created to Kill Your Sex Drive

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GYE7 TIL there are Chinese government records that show that a man by the name of Li Ching-Yuen, lived for 256 years between the years of 1677 and 1933, buried 23 wives, and had 180 living descendants.
MeKaa TIL the phrase "dung-wet" (meaning very wet) was considered "obsolete" by the Oxford English Dictionary in the 1st edition (1897) but the phrase was unexpectedly found on Twitter, having survived to present day by speakers of Carribean English.
xV8Kk Today I learned that a group of engineering students from Purdue University found that it takes 364 licks to get to the center of a tootsie pop.
LQQWZ TIL that Stede Bonnet (of "Our Flag Means Death" fame) was an actual person who worked with Blackbeard.
oBXVr TIL the oldest known flag in the United States is the “Bedford Flag” it shows an armored arm grasping a sword with the motto “conquer or die” it was used by the Minutemen at Lexington