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TIL Pinkpop is the oldest and longest running annual dedicated pop and rock music festival in the world.

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DQ5Np TIL that ants are descended from a flightless ancestor of wasps
b9MEQ TIL that shortly after the death of Harambe the gorilla, his sperm was extracted from his corpse in order to preserve genetic diversity and prevent his bloodline from dying out
ayrJ TIL that the founder of Jimmy John’s is a big game trophy hunter
OGaBa TIL the oldest known human grave in Africa was a 3 year old child found in Panga ya Saidi cave buried 78,000 years ago.
ZpYOp TIL that in the 1980s one of the propellers salvaged from the wreck of the Lusitania was melted down to make golf clubs.