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TIL light bulbs used to last longer over a hundred years ago!

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kdO1 TIL a sign language interpreter in the Ukraine courageously defied state censors in 2004 by signing to her deaf viewers the true winner of the presidential election.
XEX1R TIL the longest poem in the world is the Mahābhārata, a Hindu text. It's literally 5 times the length of the bible and the Iliad and the odyssey combined! It has 220000 verses and about 1.8 million words
ZpMXB TIL that machine gun Kelly wrote and starred in a movie that got a 0% rating on rotten tomatoes
ZJE4 TIL that a mongrel Lampo hitch-hiked trains and was taking longer and longer train trips from which he always returned.
VMXZ0 TIL when the issue of witch trials arose at Charlemagne's Council of Frankfurt in 794, he had his bishops call the belief in witchcraft superstitious, ordering death penalties for anyone who burned witches. Incidentally, he had founded the first universities since the fall of Rome.