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TIL in 1723, Handel took up residence in a Mayfair flat for 36 years - 200 years later Jimi Hendrix lived in the same flat

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VBQjk TIL - Saint Catharine's Monastery on the Sinai Peninsula is the world's oldest continuously inhabited Christian monastery, along with the oldest continuously operating library in the world
BDoK TIL Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary wrote a massive screenplay in 1987 called ‘The Open Road’, which would later get split into two separate screenplays called 'True Romance’ and 'Natural Born Killers’.
nWJKo TIL that in 2023, scientists discovered the first known species in which chimerism determines sex - the yellow crazy ant. The ant is invasive in many countries and is capable of a completely new type of sexual reproduction having previously never been seen before.
DQwGJ TIL Four of the 9/11 hijackers passports survived the attack. Two were recovered from the wreckage of flight 93, one was recovered in luggage that had missed a connecting flight, and the fourth was recovered on the floor outside the WTC prior to the towers' collapse.
mxZMo TIL that approximately 1.6 million people of Japanese descent live Brazil. The largest Japanese population outside of Japan.