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TIL that the oldest person in the world is 116 years and 116 days old TODAY

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ZE7a TIL A man spent 4 years in jail for plotting to kill Sherriff Joe Arpaio with a pipe bomb. After investigation it was discovered to be an elaborate publicity stunt, with Maricopa police supplying the bomb parts to the man.
WkyxL TIL Conrad Heyer, born in 1749, is the earliest-born person to ever be photographed. He served as a soldier under George Washington's army.
vDk4 TIL that the Soviet tenor Victor Ivanovich Nikitin was so good, that when he sang to the Soviet troops at the Eastern front in WWII, German troops on the other side stopped shooting to listen to him.
4XJBa TIL Mother Teresa tried to baptize dying people without telling them and found the suffering of poor people as beautiful
WkQZd TIL that Gina Han, whom police dubbed "the evil twin," was sentenced to 26 years to life in prison for hatching what prosecutors alleged was a plot to kill her identical twin sister Sunny. Sunny was tied and forced to sit in a bathtub. A 911 call brought police to the scene and they arrested Gina.