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TIL in 2006 a 1328 year old construction company liquidated in Japan.

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R9Wl TIL the world’s oldest bra was found by archaeologists in a Vienna castle, and the bra was carbon dated at 600 years. That is perplexing because the modern bra is thought to have been invented only about 100 years ago and history books say that bras came after the corset.
W7aZd TIL that the world record for pull-ups by a woman is held by an Australian woman who did over 7,000 pull ups in 24 hours (7,079) “Moving forward, this literally forces me to question everything that I don’t believe that I can do.”
9wZnp TIL during the 17th and 18th centuries English capitalized all nouns (as in Gulliver's Travels, and most of the original 1787 United States Constitution) similar to the German language of today
5rx9 TIL: Woodrow Wilson’s vice president, Thomas Marshall, was known for his sense of humor. One of his favorite jokes was about a woman with two sons, one of whom went to sea and one of whom was elected vice president; neither was ever heard of again.
jWNa TIL that the anti piracy chip was the main cause of cartridge boot failures on the NES.