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TIL of 1,000-year old windmills still operating in Iran

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5Vwg9 TIL in 2010, officials in Tokyo went to congratulate the oldest man in the city, Sogen Kato, on his 111th birthday, but instead found his skeletal remains on his bed. He’d been dead for 30 years but his family had kept it secret to continue collecting his pension money.
6EO78 TIL Sal Khan (founder of Khan Academy) was the lead singer of a death metal band
p8aGO TIL that for 23 years, a Dallas family sent flowers to NASA mission control in Houston, before each of the 110 Shuttle missions since they resumed following the Challenger explosion.
Awvg TIL Canada is considered a third-world country by Netflix in terms of broadband internet rankings.
D1AXV TIL when Muppets creator Jim Henson died, Disney imagineers made a tribute drawing of Mickey consoling a sad Kermit.