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

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VMQ4B TIL that Toto, the Japanese toilet company, created a motorcycle that runs on waste. It has a toilet for a seat.
Y4gZ TIL of The Scooby-Doo Project, a surprisingly dark Scooby-Doo special that aired on Cartoon Network in 1999 spoofing The Blair Witch Project
X84r TIL Charlie Chaplin not only wrote, directed, produced, edited and starred in his films but for many also composed the musical scores.
awrgN TIL Wernher von Braun, the German rocket scientist who developed Nazi superweapons during WWII, was one of many German scientists secretly brought to the US to help win the Space Race. He would go on to develop the Saturn V rocket, which carried Apollo 11 to the moon.
wLv8M TIL: A programmable HP-65 calculator was used as a backup in the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, in case the main system malfunctioned.