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TIL the oldest Inn in the world has been in business 1300 years and in the same family for 52 generations

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v1ZXx TIL about "refeeding syndrome". Where many WW2 prisoners suffering from starvation died after over eating after release at the end of the war.
nW6v9 TIL scallops can have up to 200 eyes!
4X4Zg TIL that the estate of Jimi Hendrix no longer permits use of his music in films involving the abuse of drugs or alcohol. The last film to do so was ‘Withnail and I’ (1987).
9YjoB TIL about The Battle of the Frogs. The loud croaking of thousands of fighting bullfrogs was heard in a pond in Windham, CT, USA. The sound caused citizens to panic and assume that Windham was under attack, some of them mistaking the croaks for shouted words, the beating of drums, or Armageddon.
GkA4 TIL - Belgium beat Iraq to get the world record for having no government for the longest time