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TIL a cockatoo in Australia lived to be 100 years old.

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b68o9 TIL the first top prize winner on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire never used any of his lifelines until the last question where he used the "Phone a Friend" lifeline. He phoned his father not to ask for help but to tell him that he was about to become a millionaire.
XEL08 TIL Windows 10 desktop wallpaper is actual photo and not just CGI picture
DLgJ TIL around 3000BC a meteor crashed into the Indian Ocean, creating a 30km-wide crater. This caused a tsunami to hit coastal areas, including Mesopotamia, which be the origin of the flood myths (such as Noah’s Ark)
VMge8 TIL that Hippies get their name from Hipsters, who were sarcastic, pot smoking 1940s jazz fans.
1aGr TIL humans were almost certainly deep-sea fishing over 42,000 years ago.