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TIL Scientists created an antenna that is only five nanometres long

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pkOO TIL in 1974 Lorne Michaels offered $3000 on SNL for the Beatles to reunite, John Lennon and Paul McCartney, both of whom happened to be watching the show together at Lennons home, considered walking over to the studio just a few blocks away, but decided not to because they were tired.
GYKkJ TIL Who Let The Dogs Out by the Baha Men is a cover of a song that came out a year before it in Trinidad
mxlPp TIL Roman citizens were entitled to free allotments of wine given to them by the state (skip to 20:20)
R79M7 TIL in 2015 Tbillisi, Georgia was flooded. A result of flooding was the destruction of the Tbilisi Zoo, leaving half of its animal inhabitants either dead or on the loose. An escaped African penguin was found at the Red Bridge border crossing with Azerbaijan, having swam 60 km south from Tbilisi.
E1LLo TIL of the exercise of 'death cleaning' - a Swedish concept where elderly people deliberately clear out and declutter their possessions so that nobody else has to do it once they're dead