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TIL there’s Christian communities in India who allegedly exists since the first century A.D, prior to most parts of Europe.

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OGQRe TIL that in 1963, the British army tested how long a WWI Vickers Machine Gun could fire. It fired 5 Million Rounds, Firing Continously for Seven Days, an Average of 500 Rounds Per Minute for 10 000 Minutes.
aw0aJ TIL that the Joy of Cooking was self-published in 1931. Irma Rombauer spent $3000 to print 3000 copies. Today you would have to be lucky to get just one of those copies for $3000.
lMXa TIL there are approximately three million shipwrecks on the ocean floor, worth billions in value and treasure.
MXrV TIL There is a water park in Germany that has banned women from using an extreme water slide because it has caused genital injury to 6 women
GPKG TIL a man named Jerry Gretzinger has been drawing a map of an imaginary world for over 50 years. He draws from a deck of cards each morning to decide the fate of his hand-drawn world, which is over 2000 square feet in size.