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TIL Vietnamese farmers after the war repurposed external fuel tanks jettisoned by American planes into river canoes, which have lasted for nearly 5 decades.

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LmLQ TIL a 108-year-old Santa Monica woman said in an interview of her extraordinarily long life, “It doesn’t pay to live too long.” She had long since outlived her husband, and her son had recently died in his 80s.
W79dA TIL that a fictional language, Wenja, was created for Far Cry Primal by a team of linguists after Ubisoft deemed the 6,000 year old Proto-Indo-European to be too modern for the game's prehistoric setting.
6oNl TIL Peter Capaldi was the lead singer in a punk rock band called Dreamboys, whose drummer was future comedian Craig Ferguson.
rRx9x TIL: In 1870, the voters of the Dominican Republic voted to become part of the United States. 99% of voters supported the measure, but when the annexation was brought before the U.S. Senate, the vote was split 28/28 and the measure failed.
G405 TIL in 1974 the U.S. National Advisory Commission on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals advised, “no new [prisons] should be built and existing institutions for juveniles should be closed…There is overwhelming evidence that [prisons] create crime rather than prevent it.”