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TIL “Time Immemorial” actually refers to a specific date - the Accession of Richard I - in English law

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bKGE TIL that in 2010, Israel’s weekly state lottery drew exactly the same 6 numbers as the draw 3 weeks earlier – an event statisticians said was a one in four trillion chance.
1a05V Today I learned Jonestown Survivor Jackie Speier Who was Shot in the Head and Stomach After an Ambush, Survived and Crawled into a Forest Only to be Attacked by a Swarm of Fire Ants. She spent 22 hours Without Medical Help.
jNM5R TIL French composer Georges Bizet died of a heart attack at 37 about a month after his masterpiece Opera Carmen premiered to bad reviews and low attendance. Despite dying convinced the work had been a flop the Opera would go on to become one of the most iconic works of music.
wJZ8 TIL Iran tried to get into the Guinness book of world records by making the worlds largest sandwich. But people started eating it before it could be officially measured so they failed.
VMKG8 TIL In 2005 war games, a Swedish submarine called HSMS Gotland was able to sneak through the sonar defenses of the US Navy Aircraft Carrier Ronald Reagan and its entire accompanying group, and (virtually)sank the US Aircraft carrier on its own and still got away without getting detected.