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TIL despite having the tag line “Gotta Catch ‘Em All”, Ash Ketchum only caught 43/649 Pokémon.

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WkQR9 TIL John F. Kennedy’s Eternal Flame has only ever gone out twice since 1963. The first time was less than a month after it had been lit when a child accidentally extinguished it with holy water. Luckily one of the grave workers was a smoker and had a lighter on hand to relight it.
1akV7 TIL that in 1859, a guy released 24 rabbits for hunting into the wild in Australia, a country which had no native rabbit population then. By 1920, their population increased to 10 billion. This is the fastest spread ever recorded of any mammal.
16Mv4 TIL Lua -- the programming language behind WoW, Roblox, Wikimedia, nginx, and more -- was funded & created in 1993 by Jesuit engineers in order to comply with Brazil's strict barriers to international trade
JoJ8 TIL the guitar Slash plays on November Rain is a 59 Les Paul that Aerosmiths Joe Perry used in the 1970s before selling it. Perry wanted it back but lost track of it until a friend saw it in a magezine article about Slash. Slash didn’t want to sell, but gave it to Perry for his 50th birthday.
4kbg6 TIL that France had colonies in India until 1954, seven years after the British exited the country. French India comprised of five geographically separated enclaves totaling 510 sq km (200 sq mi).