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

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R7GVQ TIL That Famous Actor Peter Dinklage used to play in a punk band named “Whizzy”
loQdK TIL Sayre's Law, which has been variously formulated as, "academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics because the stakes are so low" and "competition in academia is so vicious because the stakes are so small".
Yv0G TIL the Hasidic Jewish population of East Ramapo NY elected Hasids to the public school board, which then started cutting the public school budget and closing public schools. Hasids don’t attend the public schools.
krW4 TIL there’s a school in Russia for mastering “The Art of oral sex”
5Yj4R TIL that the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Centre is home to the four largest doors (each bay door is 139 metres high) and largest American flag (63.7 metres by 33.5 metres) in the world; the doors take 45 minutes to open.