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6knw TIL the five oldest known companies all started in Japan. The oldest being more than 1400 years old. Worldwide there are more than 5500 companies that have been operating for 200+ years
xV1Bo TIL Mao Zedong started a program to encourage people to criticize the government, and then punished those that did, even putting some into labor camps.
nWDr TIL that “2 Girls One Cup” is actually only the trailer to a full-length porno titled “Hungry Bitches.”
M7OPm TIL that In 2015, that a three-story tall lamp post became so corroded by urine that it snapped and fell over, crushing a nearby car.
vn9K TIL Only 16 years elapsed between the first humans to stand at the summit of Mt. Everest and the first humans to stand on the Moon.