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TIL the world's oldest operating company is a construction company opened in the year 578 AD

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xQ8k TIL that as many as 100,000 of Hong Kong’s poor and elderly live in small metal cages only barely large enough to lie down in.
aKbJ TIL an Australian infant vanished in 1980 and her mother served prison time for the murder, and 32 years later it was declared she had actually been taken by a dingo.
aADA TIL a 15 year old boy named Jack Andraka made a program that can detect pancreatic cancer, a general procedure that usually costs about $2,000-$5,000 for just $3.
RR88 TIL Sony once sued itself; RIAA(partially controlled by Sony Music) sued Launch.com(owned by Sony’s Tech & Business unit), meaning that the Music Dept. somehow sued it’s Tech Dept.
XEJEj TIL Keanu Reeves has had stalkers break into his house multiple times. On one occasion he awoke and found one in his library. He calmly spoke to her as he called the police for a psychiatric evaluation.