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TIL the last surviving Civil War veteran lived long enough to have seen television.

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Vpv8 TIL that a woman was found in her London flat, skeletonised, after 3 years of being dead - with the TV still running
p8npO TIL: Pizza boxes are not recyclable once they are used
Jv0V TIL that the Dana Carvey Show, which aired just 7 episodes in 1996, had a writing team that included Louis C.K., Stephen Colbert, Steve Carell, Bob Odenkirk, Charlie Kaufman. Robert Smigel, Dino Stamatopoulous (Starburns from Community) and more.
1avEr TIL Garfield phones have been washing up on a beach in France for over 20 years. A shipping container fell off the cargo ship in a storm and the locals can do nothing about it.
KdWJ TIL The Flaming Lips released a 24-hour-long song, sold on a hard drive encased in a real human skull for $5,000. They sold five of them.