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TIL Otto frank, Ann Frank's father died in 1980. Which means he lived to see the Moon Landing.

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nWEnY TIL of the film '100 Years', written by and starring John Malkovich, which is due to be released on 18th November 2115. The film is kept in a high-tech, bulletproof glass safe in Cognac, France. It's tagline is "The Movie You Will Never See".
b9O6p TIL that female tennis player Esther Vergeer went on a decade long winning streak in wheelchair singles ended only by her retirement. Her streak lasted 470 matches and brought her 7 Paralympic gold medals and 21 grand slam singles titles.
awmPy TIL the shadows on the Velociraptor in this scene in Jurassic Park are DNA nucleotide sequences
LQb0 TIL that Aztecs were making the sharpest blades known to science 2,500 years ago out of obsidian, and, as of relatively recently, the technology is starting to catch on again.
JYPXV TIL that in 2012, a woman on vacation in Iceland joined a police search party to help find someone who was reported missing, The search went on for hours before she found out that the person they were looking for was herself.