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TIL The probably oldest continuously operated fast food restaurant has been serving Bratwurst in Germany for over 850 years.

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AVnd TIL Julian Assange has been stuck in the Ecuadorian embassy longer than his maximum prison sentence would be, should he have been convicted in Sweden.
W7DyL TIL jazz singer Jimmy Scott suffered from Kallmann syndrome, which stunted his puberty leading to his height being limited to 4'11 (until the age of 37, when he suddenly grew 8 inches) and his unusually high, androgynous voice.
Ypr0v TIL that the February and October Revolutions of 1917 actually occurred in March and November, respectively. This is because Tsarist Russia used the Julian calendar at the time, which the Bolsheviks changed to the Gregorian calendar after the revolution.
RjE1 TIL Fresh snow absorbs sound, lowering ambient noise over a landscape because the trapped air between snowflakes attenuates vibration. That´s why it gets so quite when it snows.
Oon56 TIL in 2006, Judge Garland Ellis Burrell Jr. ordered that items from Ted Kaczynski's cabin be sold at a "reasonably advertised Internet auction." Bomb-making materials, such as diagrams for bombs, were excluded. Raising $232,000 for his victims.