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TIL the Senate of Rome outlasted the fall of the Empire and survived until the Middle Ages

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vper TIL some whales hunted in the 19th Century are still alive today
M74WA TIL that Australia had a large inland sea called the Eromanga Sea during the Cretaceous Period.
O8WL TIL Eiichiro Oda the creator of the Manga One Piece originally planned it to last 5 years, but it has gone for 16 years and is nowhere near done.
VMpd0 TIL Leonhard Euler was the most prolific mathematician of all time. He wrote more than 500 books and papers during his lifetime — about 800 pages per year — with 400 further publications appearing posthumously. His collected works and correspondence are still not completely published
ao7o TIL that between 1996-2000, more than 250,000 indigenous women were coerced into sterilizations by the Peruvian government