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TIL the oldest living person smoked cigarettes from the age of 21 to 117

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lp7G TIL Charles Sheridan repeated Milgram’s experiment with one difference. He used a puppy as a victim instead of a human. Intriguingly, the six students out of 26 that refused to go on were all men while all thirteen women who participated in the experiment obeyed right up until the end.
nWyjY TIL The JFK Memorial Plaza monument in Dallas was designed to look like an empty tomb. It has no statue, and there is nothing to read or really explore
mx0Mx TIL all Speaker's gavels in the US Congress are made by the House Carpentry Shop, which also makes all the seals and signs around the capitol building.
n6Pb TIL Elvis claimed that when he was 8 years old, he was telepathically contacted by two alien beings who showed him his future. Reportedly, the aliens showed Elvis an image of “a man in a white jumpsuit singing to a crowd,” but the eight year old Elvis didn’t understand what it meant.
YpX7A TIL that the autistic spectrum and the distinction between "high functioning" and "low functioning" autism was discovered by Hans Asperger in an attempt to save children in his clinic from the Gestapo during World War 2, who killed disabled children in preparation for the Holocaust.