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ADWZx TIL: The oldest bar in the world is in Ireland. Archeological records have found that the walls of Sean’s Bar have been around, and serving, since 900 AD. Further, there are records of every owner of the pub back to its 10th century founding. It opened over 1100 years ago.
M8eK TIL that in 1932 a riot invaded Newfoundland’s government building. The prime minister barely escaped injury and resigned. In 1933 the country—like Canada, an independent English-speaking country neighboring the US—gave up self-government and voluntarily became a British colony again.
k7B4 TIL Andy Weir, the author of The Martian, was so keen on getting every detail right, he wrote programs to calculate the orbital paths of spaceships that appear in the book.
kOD5W TIL that the word "Pompatus" used by Steve Miller in "The Joker" was made up by him
995G TIL In 2006 casino mogul Steve Wynn was set to conduct the largest art transaction in history by selling Picasso’s Le Rêve for $139 million. The day before the transaction was set to take place Wynn accidentally stuck his elbow through the painting.