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TIL that sharks are older than Saturn’s rings

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OokeR TIL about Benjamin Bolger, a perpetual student who continuously takes college programs. Currently he has 14 degrees, including schools such as Yale, Harvard, and Stanford.
Wle9 TIL that critics complained that Daler Mehndi’s music was only popular due to his videos that featured beautiful women dancing. Mehndi’s response was to create a video that featured only himself. The music video was the first made in India using greenscreen technology.
wgD7 TIL that at around 5PM EST is when the greatest proportion of the world is sleeping (55-60%)
rRGy0 TIL The Japanese military used plague-infected fleas and flies, covered in cholera, to infect the population of China. They were spread using low-flying planes and with bombs containing mixtures of insects and disease. 440,000 people died as a result.
KQ84 TIL US President Andrew Jackson had been shot so many times people said he “rattled like a bag of marbles.”