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TIL Tekken has the longest running video game storyline without major reboots or retcons

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P7RJ TIL scientologists believe that psychiatrists (psychs) are actually beings from the planet Farsec sent to earth to “keep humanity ignorant.”
mB8M TIL That Archduke Franz Ferdinand owned an early version of a bulletproof vest made from silk. Despite modern tests indicating that a bullet of the era would have been stopped by it, and Ferdinand knowing that there was a threat to his well-being, he did not wear the vest on the fateful day.
NXwaQ TIL: The world's largest Michael Jackson memorabilia collection is in Equatorial Guinea bought by the reigning dictator's son with stolen government funds.
X0wRj TIL the New York Stock Exchange is owned by a company called Intercontinental Exchange, which has its stock listed on the New York Stock Exchange
d6j8 TIL that Irene Triplett, an 84-year-old woman in North Carolina, still collects a monthly Civil War pension of $73.13 from the Department of Veterans Affairs. She is the last child of any Civil War veteran still on the VA benefits rolls.