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TIL Walter Orthmann (Brazil) has been working at the same company for 84 years and 9 days, as verified on 6 January 2022.

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BrNYb TIL that when Russell Brand and Katy Perry divorced he was elligible to half of her $44M she made during their marriage but he refused to take any of that money.
8aD6a TIL that string beans got their name because they used to have a fibrous string running from tip to tip that had to be "unzipped" before eating -- until the string was bred out by a botanist.
8avxP TIL the "infinite monkey" theory was tested in 2003 at the Paignton Zoo (England). After a month, the six monkeys had only produce five pages (consisting mostly of the letter S), partially destroyed the computer, and used it as a lavatory.
MeMKA TIL researchers in Japan came up with a fire alarm that emits the pungent odour of wasabi to alert people with hearing impairments of a fire. They tested this on 14 subjects, and 13 of them, including 4 deaf subjects, woke up within 2 minutes. It turned out that the 14th subject had a blocked nose.