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TIL of Suryash Dixit, who declared himself ruler of Bir Tawil, an unclaimed territory between Egypt and Sudan.

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v1kPx TIL in 1938 William Cooper led a delegation of the Australian Aboriginal League to the German Consulate in Melbourne to hand over a petition protesting the “cruel persecution of the Jewish people by the Nazi government of Germany.” 70 years later Israel planted 70 trees in remembrance of the protest
0we4R TIL in 1999 Professor Bill Ditto made a simple calculator using the neurons taken out of leeches; word's first biological computer. It was aptly named the "leech-ulator".
xVB5B TIL that the longest movie ever, which spans 720 hours (30 days) would be released this year . In contrast, The longest running show , the Simpsons , and its entirety of 552 episodes comes round at about 203 hours
5V7Zn TIL the world's first Ball Pit was at Seaworld in San Diego
mpWP TIL that the Confucius genealogical line as the longest family tree in history, with 86 recorded generations over 2,500 years: the Chinese philosopher (551 to 479 BCE) is thought to have 3 million descendants all over the world.