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TIL fruit cakes can last hundreds of years and then eaten if preserved with alcohol.

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16Bp7 TIL that BMW was founded by a son of the inventor of the four-stroke gasoline engine Nicolaus Otto
lVe1 TIL that according to Marco Polo’s writings, Ghenghis Khan died from an injury caused by an arrow to the knee.
YpabZ TIL that the 2002 movie 'A Very Muppet Christmas' features the World Trade Centre still standing in an alternate reality in which Kermit was never born.
QNgmM TIL in 1989, the US pursued Panama dictator Manuel Noriega and tried to make him surrender by loudly playing hit songs such as "Welcome to the Jungle," "Panama," and "Never Gonna Give You Up" in front of the embassy Noriega was staying in.
Z8vna TIL that the dog in the “This is fine” meme meets a rather gruesome end in the comic strip