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TIL the Beatles' last live concert was four years before their breakup, and they played for about 30 minutes.

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ANpo4 TIL that the Great Pyramid of Giza held the title for the world's tallest structure for an astonishing 3600 years, spanning from 2600 BC to 1300 AD. It also retained its position as the tallest structure in Egypt until the year 1961.
Grp1 TIL: The Nazis placed a $5,000 bounty on Einstein’s head.
neEXB TIL: Dwayne Johnson "aka: The Rock" began his acting and wrestling career after being cut from the Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League. He would later say "Sometimes, your biggest dreams that don’t come true are the best things that never happened."
VBVRD TIL that half of all plastics ever made were made in the last 15 years
Z8pB4 TIL all the 360 kilogrammes of lunar soil samples brought back from the Apollo missions have now rusted after corroding their vacuum bottle seals and being exposed to water and oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere.