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TIL that sharks are older than trees

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RwZa TIL During the 2014 Sochi Olympics, Russians got free passes on the Moscow subway system if they did 30 squats in front of a motion sensor
0draA TIL that the last television ever manufactured in the U.S. made its way off the assembly line in July 2005 at the former Magnavox production headquarters in Greeneville, Tennessee. The TV remains on public display in a history museum in the town.
nWBEY TIL in 1963, a cat named Félicette became the first and only cat (so far) to travel to space. She was sent on the mission by the French government and successfully returned to Earth, providing valuable scientific data from her 15-minute suborbital flight
PYQ8Z TIL of Davy and Daryl, twin 10 year olds, who spent 3 years biking from Alaska to Argentina to set a Guinness World Record- only to be denied the title, once completed
LkoPd TIL that 707,088 people in the 1931 Polish census were recorded as speaking 'local', rather than any recognized language.