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TIL GZA of Wu Tang Clan has given science and music lectures at MIT, Harvard and NYU

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nWpDo TIL that the world’s longest music piece will take 639 years to complete. It's currently being played in a German church and will end in the year 2640
mxv6v TIL that in 1900 a young clerk at a British shipping company observed a fortune in rubber returning from the Congo while only guns and manacles were being sent in return. He correctly deduced that these resources were being extracted from the population by force and campaigned to expose the abuses.
p8PZ8 TIL a 2003 heatwave killed over 70,000 people across Europe including 14,000 in France alone.
8eXmG TIL adult hippos can’t swim
160oP TIL that Los Angeles has oil rigs concealed in fake buildings all over the city including one that's meant to resemble a synagogue and even has a small island chain built off it's coast for the sole purpose of drilling oil. They are the only decorated oil islands in the United States.