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

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NX8OP TIL that not being able to burp is not normal, and a lifetime of being confused as to why people didn’t just “burp silently” has finally come back to me in the form of realizing that I was the strange one.
XEEXQ TIL While in Vietnam, 20 percent of US servicemen became addicted to heroin. Only around 7 percent used heroin after returning to the U.S. and only about 1-2 percent had a relapse, even briefly, into addiction
YpmwP TIL Motorola was the first company to produce a handheld mobile phone. The first call was from Martin Cooper (Motorola) to his rival Joel Engel (Bell Labs). The phone weighed 1.1kg, had talk time of 30 minutes and took 10 hours to recharge.
7rBwO TIL that Theodosia Burr Alston, daughter of U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr, disappeared mysteriously at sea in 1812. At age 29 she sailed from Georgetown, South Carolina, aboard the Patriot. The ship and everyone on board was never seen again.
kPn1 TIL Irena Sendlar, the “Oskar Schindler,” smuggled 2500 Jewish infants out of the Warsaw Ghetto during WW2. When caught by the Nazis she had her limbs broken and was beaten. When nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize she lost to Al Gore, who made a PowerPoint slideshow on global warming.