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TIL the Beverly Clock is the longest running clock, has never needed wound since its creation In 1864, and is commonly mistaken to be a perpetual motion machine

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pmXQ TIL at the 1912 Olympics, a marathon runner quit and went home to Japan without telling officials and was considered a missing person in Sweden for 50 years. In 1966, he was invited to complete the marathon. His time: 54 years, 8 months, 6 days, 5 hours, 32 minutes and 20.379 seconds.
X0JKD TIL Cenk Uygur Becomes The First Naturalized Citizen on a Presidential Ballot In United States History
R74e1 TIL That Loofah Sponges are the interior of a gourd native to South East Asia. The young fruit is often grown as a food crop, and when the gourds mature, they get a hard fibrous interior which are often sold as cleaning sponges.
05E5 TIL that of the 196 countries in the world, 59 of them gained independence from the United Kingdom.
6AWw TIL: The Japanese developed an electric car in 1949 that could travel 200km on a single charge.