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TIL there's a good amount of evidence suggesting that ageing and likelihood of dying kind of plateaus at about 105 years of age - Late-life Mortality Deceleration.

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plNA TIL that “cicisbeo” is the male equivalent to a “mistress!”
oBpj8 TIL Mammoth Ivory trade is almost totally unregulated and undocumented, this is not easily distinguishable from elephant ivory and thus there is tangible risk of illegal international trade in elephant ivory being being deliberately mislabeling as mammoth ivory.
Vr80 TIL in 2003 a teen with cancer died because his naturopathic Dr assured his parents he will cure his cancer with photo luminescence: taking a vial of blood from him, exposing it to ultraviolet light from a device, injecting the treated blood back in a hydrogen-peroxide solution. He died 9 days later
5ZAn TIL MGMT was offered 1€ after the French UMP party used “Kids” without copyright permission. They settled for 30,000€.
ADD5o Yes, technically, but not nearly enough.