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TIL The Rock charges movie companies $1 million to Tweet/IG about his movies

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X0gKX TIL that according to the bible, Adam, Eve, and a bunch of their descendants lived for several centuries, some even getting close to a millennium.
j6j8p TIL of Operation Border Stone, where Czechslovak secret police set up fake border crossings near West Germany to capture people trying to escape the communist nation. The police held fake "welcome" interviews and led the refugees into path where real police awaited for them.
4eBa TIL Nicotine is the tobacco plant’s evolutionary defence mechanism, which makes insects sick when they eat the plant, thus saving the plant from being eaten!
5xA9 TIL a survivor from the 2011 Norway attacks by Anders Breivik was arrested and detained for 17 hours because “he did not react to the carnage with the same tears and hysteria as most of the other survivors”.
RBel TIL that trains in Japan are so punctual that delays of as little as five minutes will lead to issuance of a ‘delay certificate’ for passengers affected by lateness, who can then produce it to their superiors at school or work and is considered as a valid reason for reporting late.