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TIL the Inca Empire existed for only 95 years.

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ekZ4 TIL….about Richard McNair, a prisoner placed in the federal supermax facility in Colorado because he had previously escaped 3 times, including when he successfully mailed himself out of jail in a package.
6949X TIL that when JFK was serving in the Navy during WW2, his patrol boat was sunk by a Japanese destroyer. Kennedy led his men to safety with an injured crew member to a nearby island and survived there by drinking coconut milk until they eventually got rescued
81BK TIL “Shipping is cheap. So cheap that, rather than fillet its own fish, it is cheaper for Scotland to send its cod 10,000 miles over to China to be filleted and returned to Scotland.”
LQjrr TIL Confucius's family kept genealogy records for over 2 millennia
NXlRQ Today I learned singer Brocarde, who was once married to a Victorian ghost, claimed to conjure the spirit of Lemmy of Motorhead. He apparently appeared with a black stallion and some pizza.