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TIL that the youngest person ever to die of 'old age' was 8 years old - a girl named Anna Saikdon

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wKMJ TIL Physicist Richard Feynman memorized pi up to the 762nd digit, where there are six 9’s in a row, just so he could joke, “…9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9 and so on…”. For this reason, this sequence of 9’s is named the Feynman Point.
wxwJ TIL In the opening sequence of the Simpsons, when Marge accidentally scans her baby Maggie, the price reads “847.63”, which was the average cost of raising a baby at the time
d8pAK TIL that a third of the world's parrot species are threatened due to poaching for the pet trade.
VQ8p TIL that the original script of Ghostbusters was written with Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, John Candy, and Eddie Murphy in mind as the main characters.
7RX7 TIL In 1901, Teddy Roosevelt presented his “Controlling the Trusts” speech to Congress shortly after taking the reins as President. In the speech, he asked Congress to curb the corporation’s power to “within reasonable limits”.