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TIL There is a shark that lives for several hundreds of years

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Xx4D TIL the last film ever rented by an official branch of the Blockbuster chain of video stores was “This is the End.”
wL8rY TIL that in the 1946 California Gubernatorial Election, incumbent governor and future Justice Earl Warren won 91.1% of the Republican primaries... and 51.9% of the Democratic primaries earning both nominations. He would later go on to win a massive landslide of 91.6% in the general election.
VMJE0 TIL before the discovery of x-rays or the popularity of xylophones, alphabet books struggled with examples for "X is for...". Some used Greek figures like Xerxes and Xantippe, but others were lazy and just said "X is a letter, like this X".
ZpZno TIL Mongol-Chinese actor Batdorj-in Baasanjab, who played Genghis Khan in a 2004 miniseries, is actually a direct descendant of Genghis Khan's son Chagatai
ZpyJa TIL The Dick Van Dyke Show was originally written entirely by Carl Reiner, about stories from Reiner's life, and starred Carl Reiner. The pilot was unsuccessful so it was reworked with Dick Van Dyke playing Robert Petrie.