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TIL That the world's oldest continuously running business is a hot springs hotel in Japan that's run since 705 A.D.

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R7gEa TIL of German serial killer Karl Denke, in the 1910’s killed upwards of 40 people, and processed their flesh into pickled “pork”, their hair into shoelaces, and their skin into belts, and other gruesome items that he then sold at markets and door-to-door.
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