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TIL the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World only existed at the same time for a period of less than 60 years.

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yVjop TIL about lazboard or petranboard, a wooden board used for skiing on snow in Petran Plateau of İkizdere district of Rize in Turkey. It is thought to have been used since the 1600s
j64yj TIL the 2020 United States presidential election had a voter turnout of 66.6%.
oeAL TIL that Andre Geim won the satirical Ig Nobel Prize in 2000 for his work on using magnetism to levitate a frog. 10 years later, his experiments regarding graphene won him the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics. This makes him the only ever recipient of both the Ig Nobel and Nobel Prizes.
GYjkj TIL That American Idol Judge Randy Jackson is the current bassist for the band Journey and played with them in the 80s
pKDe TIL a man tried to redeem 7 million Pepsi Points for a Harrier Jet and sued when Pepsico claimed the commercial in which it was featured was ‘fanciful’.