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TIL 92 of the 100 oldest People currently alive are Female

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kOoBe TIL the International Space Station (ISS) can orbit "straight through" an aurora event. When it happened on 23 February 2016 Timothy Peake, a European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut aboard the ISS, said it was "eerie but very beautiful."
oRJrL TIL there is a species of beetle with eyelashes. It's called Rhipiceridae and eats cicada nymphs for a living.
YPYA TIL Jason Statham got his first film role, in Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels, when Guy Richie spotted him selling dodgy jewellery on the streets of London.
kXee TIL of the “dementor wasp,” called Ampulex dementor, which injects a toxin into cockroaches that leave them alive but without a will of their own, yet still mobile enough that they can run right into the wasp’s nest to be conveniently devoured
5MpQ TIL that Pope Benedict IX was the only Pope in the history to have served 3 Papal terms.. And the only Pope to have sold Papacy… and the First Pope said to have been primarily homosexual who held orgies in the Lateran palace