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TIL a German man celebrated his birthday for 46 hours by travelling through different time-zones

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0Vav TIL: The Dead Sea Scrolls, prized by Jews, also talks about Gilgamesh, the Babylonian hero, as a real person who died in the Flood. He receives dreams of his impending doom, making it a possible prequel for his journey in his Babylonian Epoch.
grXNb TIL that airlines often serve meals over a year old
W6yA TIL that 50 Cent has set a goal of feeding 1 billion people in Africa by 2016.
Y78md TIL the bell on a cat's collar exists to limit their hunting potential, with the bell being observed to reduce captured birds by 30%-40%
0wo15 TIL A young, successful Liberal politician, John Napier Turner served as Canada's Prime Minister for only 79 days in 1984