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TIL A study on theft has indicated that most thieves are active only for a short period of time and make very little money at it. In fact, theft looks not so much like a way of getting free stuff or money as a stage some people experience in adolescence — and most grow out of it.

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KOY6 TIL: Methuselah, from the Bible, is accredited as being the oldest person to have ever lived, dying at age 969 years. But it is thought that this is a mistranslation and that he was 969 lunar months old when he died (78.5 years old) since early Judaic tribes used lunar months to gauge time.
9YWYD TIL that the world's oldest dog lived to the age of 29 years and 5 months
Y4RA TIL Night of the Living Dead is in the public domain due to a failure to register its copyright
gMkRL TIL one of the best Go players in the world retired in 2019 after losing 1-4 against the AlphaGo program. He argued that he could never be the top Go player due to the increasing dominance of AI, calling them "an entity that cannot be defeated". He was the only one to win a match against AlphaGo.
X6LD TIL there is a Yu Gi Oh fanfic that is 1.8 million words, longer than any published novel in history ever.