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TIL the world’s longest lasting light bulb has been burning for the past 113 years

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vPO4L TIL that a dungeon in the Vienna Hofburg Palace was used to confirm quantum entanglement
lAra TIL that the US allows US chickens to be shipped to China for processing and then shipped back to the US without notifying consumers the chicken came from China.
d8dnr TIL that Persian rugs have an imperfection by design in them, because of the belief that only Allah can make perfection
pY0PO TIL Mercury is closer to Earth, on average, than Venus is because it orbits the Sun more closely. Further, Mercury is the closest neighbor, on average, to each of the other seven planets in the solar system.
yQdav TIL About John List, who killed his entire family in 1971. The murders were so precisely planned, it took a month for anyone to notice. He was caught in 1989, after a forensic artist created a lifelike bust of him, analysing Lists’ personality to get it right, and it was on America’s Most Wanted.