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TIL Sesame Street did a spoof Billy Idol’s Rebel Yell with a muppet called Billy Idle and a song called Rebel L

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DMjV TIL in 1602 The Dutch East India Company undertook the world’s first IPO and, therefore, became the first public company to issue stock.
GAAxJ TIL there’s a small section of the border between Belgium and Germany that’s the world’s most complicated one
vE7x TIL the world’s shortest horror story is two lines long. “Knock” by Fredric Brown. “The last man on earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.”
Nbe1 TIL The last descendant of Abraham Lincoln died in 1985
QNPVk TIL Bangladesh has the record for deadliest tropical storm in recorded history with 300,000 - 500,000 fatalities.