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TIL that in the 9th century, two Vikings carved their names in runes on the walls of Hagia Sophia. These ancient graffiti have endured from the Byzantine era and can still be seen in Istanbul today.

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WkABL TIL a small NZ town worked together on a month-long search for local icon Rodney (a cat) who was unceremoniously dumped after a ten year stint at the local hardware store as greeter and mascot.
QNg9X TIL that Bourton-on-the-Water, an English village, contains a model of the village that is so accurate that the model contains a second smaller model of itself
4m16 TIL Cisco owns the iOS trademark and licenses it to Apple
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ZplP4 TIL that the Guinness World Record for the longest uninterrupted period of time spent playing video games is 138 hours, achieved by a teenager in Ohio