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

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xVak5 TIL that despite looking nothing alike and having different accents, Christopher and Jonathan Nolan are biological brothers and also have an older brother in prison for murder.
D1yyp TIL that over 4000 years ago the first ever customer complaint was recorded in Sumerian, regarding poor quality ore.
69EdQ TIL U.S. songwriter Billy Davis rewrote a UK jingle for the Coca-Cola Company. The song 'Buy the World A Coke' was rewritten again because people kept calling radio stations asking for the tune to be played. It subsequently became "I'd Like to Teach The World to Sing" and reached #13 on Billboard.
QJQA9 TIL of Arthur Boycott, the man with the longest overdue library book in history. He checked it out in the 1890s and it wasn’t returned until nearly 120 years later in 2016, by his granddaughter
NyoQ TIL that Ringo Starr’s first exposure to percussuion happened when he contracted tuberculosis at the age of 13 and was admitted into a sanatorium for 2 years. The staff encouraged him to join the hospital band where he used a makeshift mallet to strike against the cabinets next to his bed.