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TIL the world's oldest chewing gum is 9,000 years old

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v6wK TIL the Mall of America is owned by Canadians
9pA6 TIL that Mauritania is thought to have almost 600,000 people (20% of its population) currently living in slavery
Y76ZB TIL that the author of "Goodnight Moon" died following a routine operation at age 42, and did not live to see the success of her book. She bequeathed the royalties to Albert Clarke, the nine-year-old son of her neighbor, who squandered the millions the book earned him.
8abGG TIL Some historians consider the American Revolution to actually have been more of a civil war between pro-British and anti-British settlers.
8an1L TIL The Worlds oldest mummies are not from Egypt. They are from the Chincorro people of the Atacama Desert, present day Chile, dating back to 5000 BC, nearly 2000 years before the Egyptians