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TIL sharks are 90 million years older than trees

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vP4KB Til Irving Berlin's first wife contracted typhoid fever on their honeymoon in Havana. She died 5 months later. He eventually remarried and was married for 62 years until his second wife's death.
jg1Q TIL in 2011, in response to employees’ complaints about work-life balance and the expectations of answering after-hours email from home, Volkswagen agreed to implement a rule restricting company email functionality on the firm’s BlackBerry smartphones from 6:30pm-7:30am.
nedN7 TIL despite their fearsome reputation, Spartan warriors were no more effective in battle than any other Greek solider, Sparta lost as many battles as it won, and Spartans' brutal training resembled indoctrination of child soldiers and not combat training.
lPJN TIL legendary boxer Muhammad Ali reportedly went two months without sex before a big fight, claiming it made him unbeatable in the ring.
NXbEN TIL The chief executive of Royal Albert Hall was furious about The Beatles lyric stating, "the wrong-headed assumption that there are four thousand holes in our auditorium threatened to destroy its business overnight."