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TIL Pokémon is the highest-grossing media franchise of all time, bigger than Star Wars and the Marvel Cinematic Universe

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W77kX TIL that the saying "I'll sleep when I'm dead." may have first been said by the hero Gilgamesh. This conversation with the god Shamesh is from the Epic of Gilgamesh, captured on clay tablets 4000 years ago in the world's oldest written story. Jump down to the beginning of Part III
WDE8 TIL that Japanese Buddhists would self-sacrifice by sealing themselves inside a ship boarded-up like a coffin. At sea they either pulled a wooden plug from the hull and drowned or died of thirst or starvation.
El6x TIL in 2004, a hurricane badly damaged a building in Cocoa Beach, Florida. While the lower levels rotted, a windowless upper space was used as a residence for ten years. The space’s resident was finally evicted in 2014, but committed suicide the next day.
M7yPK TIL the longest recorded sniper kill was made last year by Ukrainian, Vyacheslav Kovalsky, taking out a Russian soldier from 2.36 miles away using a custom rifle called "Lord of the Horizon." This feat breaks the previous record held by a Canadian sniper at 2.2 miles in Iraq.
M71b0 TIL that the phrase "Does exactly what it says on the tin" came from a UK advert in 1995