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TIL that there Are Whales Alive Today Who Were Born Before Moby Dick Was Written

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4XBg5 TIL: The last living person born in the 1800s died in 2017. When she was born, the last living person from the 1700s was still alive. In other words, we all lived alongside someone who lived alongside someone who was born when George Washington was president.
rRXKM TIL Buttered Popcorn is the most popular jelly bean flavor in America
9wDrD TIL there's a degenerative brain disorder called fatal familial insomnia (FFI) that causes a person to lose the ability to sleep and eventually die
rRaOd TIL the popularity of cats as pets was largely influenced by one man in Edwardian England, and he was clinically insane.
4VGb TIL there is a photograph in the virtual museum of Canada dated from 1941 where a man in modern clothes is thought to be a time traveler and is given the name of “The time traveling hipster”.