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TIL: Bob Dylan has been on tour since 1988.

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kwYg TIL The alleged last surviving veteran of the American Revolutionary War also had the longest recorded marriage at 91 years, 12 days: The only documented marriage to have broken the 90-year anniversary mark.
1ad1X TIL Jane Stanford, founder of Stanford University, was murdered by strychnine poisoning. The president of the university at the time, David Starr Jordan, was suspected of covering up the murder. The killer was never found.
x6mGg TIL M&Ms were created in 1941 after Forest Mars, Mars Company heir saw soldiers in the spanish civil war eating smarties (British M&Ms) and noticed the hard coloured shell stopped the chocolate inside melting. This property made them attractive to the US army who was the sole customer during WW2
QJZWM TIL Mughal Emperor Akbar faced rebellion from his clerics for entertaining Jesuits in his court.
WQlL TIL that the adult Luna Moth has no mouth and dies of starvation.