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TIL scientists accidentally killed world’s oldest animal at age 507

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D1xJD TIL that since 2015, the soundwave of 'O Canada' sung by fans at a bar has been stitched on to every Canadian National Soccer Jersey
ANK1g TIL that John Clem is the youngest noncommissioned officer in the history of the United States Army at the age of 12.
dDN0B TIL that David Koresh of the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas got the idea for his name from one of his lovers, Lois Roden. She checked out a book from the Waco McLennan County Public Library in the 1980s on Cyrus Teed, an early 1900s cult leader from Southwest Florida who went by the name "Koresh".
0lWM TIL Hugo Black, Supreme Court Justice for 34 years, was a member of the KKK.
90Zm TIL Groucho Marx, on a trip to Berlin in 1958, danced the Charleston on the rubble of Hitler’s bunker