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TIL a documentary TV crew's search for exotic animals off of Australia's coast instead turned up a real-life island castaway

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xVmrB TIL about Mir Osman Ali Khan, the fifth richest man in the history of mankind - donated 5tons gold to National Defence Funds of India and was using the Jacob Diamond as a paperweight.
Q5re TIL that in Ancient Rome a slave would continuously whisper ‘Remember you are mortal’ in the ears of victorious generals as they were paraded through the streets after coming home, triumphant, from battle.
PYa4n TIL that in the early days of aerial navigation, pilots followed a system of giant concrete arrows on the ground to reach their destination
O9JY TIL: After the financial crises of 2008, the people of Iceland elected twenty-five non-political citizens to write a new constitution to free Iceland from the exaggerated power of international finance. The Icelanders could witness and comment on the constitution as it was being drafted online.
N7ZG6 TIL about Bob Dylan's Never Ending Tour that has been going on continuously for the last 31 years, and throughout the 90's and 00's played roughly 100 dates a year - on April 19th 2018 he played his 3000th show.