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TIL: Operating for over 1,400 years, Kongō Gumi, a construction company in Japan, is the oldest continuously ongoing independent company.

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ZNna TIL the Iron Sheik planned to kill the man who murdered his daughter by slitting his throat with a razor he hid in his mouth in the courtroom court. His family surrounded him and talked him out of it. Instead, as a tribute to his daughter, he quit drugs and got his life back on track.
ADPWd TIL someone actually set up a solar powered MP3 and speaker in the middle of the Namibian desert to play play “Africa” by Toto for eternity
11O7 TIL of Pheasent Island, which is jointly owned by France and Spain, for six months alternatingly.
7rMap TIL that my band still isn' famous
5YjYP TIL Diogo Alves committed the famous “Aqueduct Murders” 1836-1840 and was the penultimate person to be hanged in Portugal. Scientists wanted to study the brain of a serial killer and so preserved his head in a glass vessel. It is still viewed today in the University of Lisbon’s Faculty of Medicine.