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TIL; "Hello" came to prominence as a greeting with the invention of the telephone

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Broex TIL of Darrell "Dusty" Crawford - The man with the oldest DNA lineage found in the Americas. He is able to trace his ancestry back over 17,000 years.
kODW4 TIL The first music video played on MTV was, fittingly, Video Killed the Radio Star
D1eaj TIL after 30 WWII veterans in their mid-nineties were shown ‘Dunkirk,’ the general consensus among them was that they loved the film and thought it captured events very accurately, but “thought the soundtrack was louder than the actual bombardment.” The comment amused Nolan greatly.
Gvg TIL Donkey Kong got the name because Miyamoto thought “donkey” meant “stupid” in English.
E15ed TIL of the old jewish cemetery in prague. Dating back to 1478, it has gotten full so many times and they just kept adding layers. Now there are 12 layers of graves stacked on top of each other. There are about 12,000 visible tombstones but over 100,000 people buried there.