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TIL that Jimmy Carter is the longest-lived president, the longest-retired president, the first president to live forty years after their inauguration, and the first to reach the age of 95.

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pZ5G TIL Between the 13th and 18th Centuries it was common to have criminal trials with animal defendants. Animals on trial were most often pigs, bulls, horses, and cows or pests such as rats and weevils. They were routinely provided with lawyers and if convicted animals were executed or exiled.
6bOY TIL the first online transaction ever was Stanford students buying marijuana from MIT students.
rRvAo TIL NASA has online 3D models of all of the planets in our solar system, as well as several moons, probes, and the ISS.
oBrEr TIL that on the island of Daphne Major in the Galapagos, scientists watched for the first time a new species form in the wild, it was a new bird species that evolved only within two generations.
kvX1 TIL Donald Rumsfeld was behind the questionable legalisation of Aspartame