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TIL the Inca Empire existed for only 95 years.

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6EAl TIL that the US wouldn’t agree to the 1954 Geneva Accords that would allow Vietnam to hold elections and vote for their own leaders. This refusal was a starting point for the Vietnam War.
16JnX TIL in 2016 Police in Texas used a robot armed with a bomb to kill a sniper.
VMvEk TIL Shock G and Humpty Hump from Digital Underground are the same person.
eJ7J TIL in 2010 the RIKEN institute in Japan created mutant cherry blossom trees by firing ion beams at them in a particle accelerator. The mutated trees now bloom 4 times a year and produce more flowers.
JZb1 TIL that England still has a High Court of Chivalry. It last sat in 1954 after a 200 year break and its first ruling was to decide whether it still existed.