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TIL The longest cricket test match in history lasted nine days and ended in a draw

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E1PWw TIL in the LOTR, Gimli was 139 years old when he joined the Fellowship. He also wanted to join his father and Thorin Oakenshield on their journey to reclaim The Lonely Mountain in The Hobbit, but was denied for being too young at age 62.
LKr9 TIL In 1973, the US government stopped research into thorium based nuclear reactors as, unlike Uranium reactors, their byproducts could not be used to make nuclear weapons
Xx8k TIL that the author of the poem “Do not go gently into that good night” died at the mere age of 39. His poem is used frequently in modern pop culture, including the films “Independence Day” and “Interstellar,” and inspired a book George R.R. Martin penned in the 70s.
rRMgy TIL Shaggy got his famous lyric, "it wasn't me" from an Eddie Murphy punchline.
DQMnD TIL Samuel L Jackson held Martin Luther King Sr. hostage and was expelled from Morehouse College before later becoming an usher at MLK Jr.’s funeral