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TIL 92 of the 100 oldest People currently alive are Female

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6EVB8 TIL that In Elizabethan England, the word 'Nothing' was slang for female genitalia. The title of the Shakespeare play 'Much Ado About Nothing' is a double entendre.
eyjn TIL there’s a casino in Las Vegas that only opens for eight hours once every two years just to keep its casino license from lapsing.
6jP7 TIL for every person alive today, only 15 people have died through all of human history.
OJ87 TIL that American judges can kick out jurors whom they believe are aware of the jury’s ability to nullify laws
mmKY TIL No one knows where the word “dog” originally came from. Appearing without cognates in Old English, it displaced the more common “hound” within 400 years and went on to find its way into 7 other European languages.