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TIL the longest living vertebrate species is the Greenland Shark, reaching sexual maturity at 150 years old. The oldest known individual of the species is almost certainly older than the United States.

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0w1xj TIL that in response to a literal overflow of corpses in Parisian cemeteries in 1780, it took the city 12 years to move between 6 and 7 million bodies to its former underground mine quarries which became the city’s catacombs.
nW8PG TIL for 1920 to 1940, 20 years, the U.S. Government forced every company to put lethal deadly poison in every alcohol. It killed over 10,000 people.
jN1GR TIL Major James Robertson of Australian Army once stole one of the only 20 German tanks from no man’s land, while being attacked by machine gun and mustard gas.
j4Ma TIL when Jack Nicholson was asked for a comment immediately following Heath Ledger’s death, he replied: “Well, I warned him.”
P1LDO TIL that when on shore leave in Singapore, members of the Royal Australian Navy used to get atop a public toilet building in Bugis and perform “The Dance of the Flaming Arseholes”