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

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R7eej TIL about Democritus (460-370BCE), an Ancient Greek philosopher known for his atomic theory of the universe. He was a nobody in Athens and Plato is said to have wanted all his books destroyed.
VBxZ TIL Britain forgot about a 50,000 pound bomb that never went off - only to have it be hit by lightning 20 years later, unleashing its destruction on…a cow
KYXaE TIL that Francium is the second rarest naturally occurring element--as little as 20–30 g (1oz) exists at any given time throughout the Earth's crust.
jNlAM TIL that the tea company, Twinnings, has the world's oldest continually-used company logo. The firm's logo was created in 1787, and has been in continuous use since it was made.
kJGVE TIL the smallest known insects are wasps and that the family they belong to contains around 1400 species, collectively known as fairy wasps or fairyflies. They include the world’s smallest flying insect, barely bigger than the width of a human hair.