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TIL The Nintendo Game Company is 123 years old
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TIL Vincent Van Gogh committed suicide by shooting himself in the chest with a pistol. The bullet did not cause enough damage to kill him so he walked back to the inn where doctors treated him. VanGogh finally died of an infection 29 hours after shooting himself.
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TIL that matter was not proven to be stable until 1967
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TIL that the legendary SR-71 'Blackbird' has plans for a successor, the SR-72 'Son of Blackbird'; this craft would be capable of reaching Mach 6. In 2018, Lockheed Martin announced they would have a working prototype by 2025.
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TIL: The Clarendon Library in Oxford has a clock that has been powered by the same batteries since 1840. To date its bells have rung over 10 Billion times.
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TIL There is a book that is over 800 years old, that is 3 feet tall and almost 2 feet thick. It is known as the Devils Bible and was written by a single person.