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TIL • A fine-quality Persian rug, containing as many as 1 million knots in every 3 square feet, may last as long as 500 years before it wears out.

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5YerD TIL during WWII an American plane was shot down on the Japanese island of Chi Chi Jama. There were nine men on board, eight of whom were captured, tortured, beheaded, and eaten. The only one to evade capture had ditched his plane further from the island than the others. He name was George HW Bush.
9oDp TIL in mid 2008, media outlets reported that Dr Pepper would offer a free can of Dr Pepper to everyone in the USA —excluding former Guns N’ Roses guitarists Buckethead and Slash— if the band released Chinese Democracy in 2008. They failed on their vow and were threatened litigation by Axl Rose.
wDmP TIL that dolphins have been known to masturbate by wrapping their penises with live wriggling eels.
v11L8 TIL the Fuegian dog, was a domesticated culpeo, a native fox to South America that resembles a red fox, by the indigenous Yaghan peoples. They were exterminated by white settlers for being dangerous to the settler's goats.
NXLm8 TIL that Shunsuke Takasugi, actor of Kazuya Oki in Kamen Rider Super-1, was reported to have stolen ¥50 million from fans between 2003 and 2012. After refusing to either return the money or appear in court to answer a lawsuit, Takasugi became a fugitive from justice, disappearing in 2017.