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TIL that a Buddha statuette from India was found in Sweden at an excavation of a Viking village

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P10xn TIL the oldest known dog to have ever lived is still alive.
Me5PK TIL the solution to the world's largest math problem, calculated in 2016 using a supercomputer, takes up 200 TB of text (equal to the entire content of the world’s largest library). The award for solving the problem, posed in the 1980s, was $100, and was given to the three researchers who solved it
kMme TIL that heroin used to be a registered trademark of Bayer Pharmaceuticals before being genericized in the 1919 Treaty of Versailles
0wXMN TIL That most of the Streetlight buttons in cities like NYC, Boston and Seattle dont actually function anymore. they have been left in place to give pedestrians a placebo illusion of control over traffic flow.
0ddRR TIL prominent high-fashion designer Martin Margiela had a 1989 fashion show on a playground near Paris. The public were invited, including children, who sat on the ground in front. The kids didn't observe usual decorum as they posed for photos, sprinted onto the runway, and rode a model's shoulders