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TIL the world's longest burning fire is 6000 years old

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OogkL TIL There's roughly 100 firefighter arsonists convicted every year in North America and all of them are serial arsonists, which means three or more fires
a8EBA TIL that Paul Revere’s son turned his father’s silversmith business into a copper manufacturing company and it has been in business since 1801
8eXvG TIL the Trieste, the submersible that took Jaques Picard to the deepest point in the ocean, used 106,000 litres (28,000 gallons) of gasoline for buoyancy.
WkkMY TIL During his 2009 TED talk, Bill Gates opened a jar of mosquitoes saying “Malaria is spread by mosquitoes. I brought some… I’ll let them roam around. There is no reason only poor people should be infected” & waited for ~a minute before telling the audience that the bugs were malaria-free.
Egy9X TIL that adults have 206 bones, while babies start out with around 305. Bones fuse together as we grow, which is why we end up with fewer bones than we had at birth, with a quarter of our bones being in our feet.