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TIL the hats worn by the band Devo are called "Energy Domes"

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nWy1d TIL that John Armstrong Jr was the last surviving member of the Continental Congress and lived up until 1843, dying at age 84.
byA9 TIL an 80 year old woman was killed in a Brazilian clinic when a student nurse accidentally administered coffee and milk through her IV line.
neeyW TIL a Potter's field is a place where unclaimed bodies are buried. The Potter's field for New York is Hart Island in the Bronx and it is home to over one million bodies.
e0Aeg TIL although people live longer on average, the maximum age of humans hasn't increased in 30 years. This had led scientists to conclude that no matter how much medicine advances, the natural limit to human life span will remain around 115.
0wM9y TIL that despite the English identifying themselves historically with the Anglo-Saxon invaders that conquered Britain, only about 1/3rd of the modern English genome can be traced to these Germanic tribes.