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TIL a Construction Company is older than Islam

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nWXmW TIL researchers at a base in Antarctica started to develop a new accent
4knAN TIL that in 1898, a novel was written with a plot eerily similar to the Titanic disaster 14 years later. The name of the ship in the novel was the Titan.
7rBPx TIL that in 2019, singer Mike Posner announced he would walk completely across the United States. On August 7, his walk was delayed a few weeks after he was bitten by a rattlesnake in Colorado and airlifted to a local hospital. He finished his walk across America on October 18, 2019.
xn4w TIL that one of the least-remembered US Presidents, Millard Fillmore, was effectively sold as a child by his destitute father into a kind of indentured servitude (bordering on child slavery). He eventually bought himself from his master for $30 and walked 100 miles to his home at age 14
LkWZV TIL in 1986, when a five-year-old boy fell into a gorilla cage, the giant male gorilla named Jambo stood between the unconscious boy and the other hungry pack of apes saving his life. Later he even stroked his hair.