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TIL that Shampoo was first discovered in India

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89AV TIL police cars in New South Wales take photographs and log license plates, locations and timestamps for every car that passes them on the road. The data is stored for 5 years.
a8Yky TIL in 2004 someone offered to pay the government $12 for information about aliens killing JFK.
Oo7ZL TIL Tom Cruise, who is know to do a majority of his own stunts, once scaled an 8-foot gate to crash Kate Hudson's party, because he is Tom Cruise.
l77K7 TIL of Sakoku, the foreign policy of the Tokugawa Shogunate, which forbade common Japanese citizens to leave the country for a period of 265 years.
7dPr TIL that technically a diamond will not last forever; given enough time, a diamond will decay into graphite