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TIL that one of the oldest living creature is a 11,000 years old glass sponge found in the East China Sea

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QNEEL TIL the $6B Shoreham nuclear plant on Long Island was built, commissioned, never put into service, then dismantled over the lack of an evacuation plan
e0dG4 TIL of Joey Deacon, a man with severe cerebral palsy who was introduced to the UK public in 1981 by tv show Blue Peter as part of the Year of the Disabled. His mannerisms started a craze of kids calling each other Joey Deacon when they’d done something stupid that lasted for years.
yQpxM TIL that when euro bank notes were issued in 2002, they featured fictional bridges, so as not to cause a row amongst EU member countries. 10 years later, however, an architect for the town of Spijkenisse claimed them for the Netherlands by building all seven of them on a single waterway.
X07OD TIL that Jack White of the White Stripes originally wanted to save the guitar riff used in "Seven Nation Army" for if he got the chance to make a James Bond theme song. 5 years after the song was released, he wrote the theme for the 2008 Bond film Quantum of Solace.
DQB5J TIL Londons Stock Exchange was started in the 17th Century in a Coffee House in the City of London’s Change Alley