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TIL that Arkeology is the study of Noah's Ark.

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dZN7 TIL A Bahraini Princess eloped with an American Marine she met in a shopping mall.
rNmwx TIL that Sir Christopher Lee has made multiple heavy metal cover songs of classic Christmas carols
wpPE TIL Thomas Edison invented the Electric Pen to copy office documents, which was a commercial Flop. 15 years later Samuel O'Reilly discovered that Edison’s machine could be modified and used to introduce ink into the skin, and later patented a tube and needle system to provide an ink reservoir.
0eoM TIL: Texas, by Supreme Court ruling, cannot secede from The Union
8e1XK TIL when the Guinness World Records stopped monitoring the record for the longest time to stay awake in 1997, the record holder at the time was Robert McDonald who stayed awake for 18 days 21 hours and 40 minutes in 1986.