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TIL that the longest concert ever was 437 hours 54 minutes and 40 seconds

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9wQ47 TIL that the oldest known piece of jewelry is a set of 100,000-year-old beads made from Nassarius shells, found in a cave in Morocco.
oRy0L TIL as Governor, Texas hero Sam Houston withheld funding from the Texas Navy and declined to restock army supplies, aiming to incite a crisis that would lead to the United States annexing Texas.
ADQlw TIL that Salvator Dali once gave Alice Cooper a plaster sculpture of his brain, crowned by a chocolate eclair with real ants running down the middle. He asked Cooper to model for him. Which he did, under armed guard, since he was wearing a diamond tiara provided by Dali worth $2 million.
4lMw TIL: A researcher set up speakers playing the sound of rushing water in a calm pond and beavers repeatedly covered the speakers until they couldn’t hear the sound anymore.
KEo6 TIL that WWII German Ace Heinrich Ehrler’s last words were: “Theo. I have run out of ammunition. I’m going to ram this one. Good bye. We’ll see each other in Valhalla.”