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TIL 92 of the 100 oldest People currently alive are Female

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jGOj TIL that Facebook punked tech crunch by implementing a functioning “Fax This Photo” button just visible to TC.
wxyW TIL that by clicking on the first link of any given Wikipedia article, and continuing that process on every other subsequent article, you will almost always arrive on the “Philosophy” page
PYLmn TIL that the yellow Planet Aid collection bins are a funding stream for a European cult.
O9JY TIL: After the financial crises of 2008, the people of Iceland elected twenty-five non-political citizens to write a new constitution to free Iceland from the exaggerated power of international finance. The Icelanders could witness and comment on the constitution as it was being drafted online.
N9NE TIL George Hjorth parachuted into France three nights before D-day with three film cameras. His mission was to hide in front of the German lines at Normandy and film whatever happened on the beach. He completed the mission successfully, but the film is lost in the archives.