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TIL the world's oldest printed book is 'The Diamond Sutra' and it was created in 868 A.D. by a man named Wang Jie. At the bottom-right corner he printed: “Reverently made for universal free distribution by Wang Jie on behalf of his two parents.”

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5YkPP TIL in The Big Lebowski, Jesus Quintana is wearing rings from the American Bowling Congress that certify his ability to roll a perfect 300 game, an almost perfect 299 game and an incredibly difficult 800 series. Those rings tell you that creep can roll.
oR1ZA TIL in the pre-classical era, the ancient Greeks condoned piracy as a viable profession; it apparently was widespread and "regarded as an entirely honourable way of making a living". References are made to its perfectly normal occurrence in many texts including in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey.
ANg74 TIL of Elizabeth Jennings Graham, an African-American woman who, in 1854, successfully sued NYC's Third Avenue Railway for denying her a seat on horsecar helping to lead to the desegregation of the city’s public transportation
GAXZ1 TIL that it is extremely difficult to measure (short) time scales
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