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TIL that the oldest flood myth is likely the Epic of Gilgamesh. Written on 12 stone tablets, it's one of the first pieces of literature in recorded history. The old Sumerian king searches for immortality and encounters someone who built a ship - the Preserver of Life - to outlast the Great Flood.

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ZrQD TIL that the in Japan there is an underwater mailbox. Up to 1500 letters are dropped here by divers each year.
xVPkw TIL that an observatory in Chile makes a peculiar wine by fermenting billion year old chunks of meteorite into it.
6DQW TIL there’s a movie about a director disowning his work because of studio edits – that got disowned because of studio edits.
WGQ4 TIL the Han dynasty of China drilled for natural gas, transported it in pipelines and gas containers and burned it in stoves … in 200 BC
J1lMQ TIL On November 2nd, 1963, Reviewing The Beatles' concert the night before in Cheltenham, England, the British paper Daily Mirror uses the headline "BEATLEMANIA! It's happening everywhere ... even in sedate Cheltenham"; effectively inserting the phrase into the popular consciousness.