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TIL The longest-lived animal ever found was a 507 year old clam

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mJeM TIL in roughly 800 AD, a nobleman was ordered to trial by combat against the faithful dog of a man he was suspected of murdering. The dog won. (more details inside, this really is a must read)
oBY5W TIL Bill Withers was the youngest of 6 in West Virginia, his coal miner father died when he was 13 and he was almost 30 he ‘finally got around to’ pursuing music professionally.
N7Lpb TIL 1996 U.S. Cables have detailed how the Saudi Royal Family members received stipends up to $200,000-$270,000 a month, and when a US embassy economics officer visited the office responsible for the distribution, he described it as a place “bustling with servants picking up cash for their masters.”
DQNdJ TIL that an insurance agent in Singapore had poached more than 200 agents to join a rival insurance company and was ordered by court to pay $8.5 million to his former insurance company
v1bdD TIL about Jack London. Oyster pirate, Socialist, and rail rider. Berkeley attendee, trekked the Yukon and Chilkoot Pass, took a rowboat 1500 miles down the Yukon River to the Bering Sea. Built his own yacht and mansion and wrote 23 novels, 7 plays, short stories, and poems. Died of alcoholism age 40