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TIL Lobsters don’t die from old age, they die from exhaustion.

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NBjb TIL the magnitude 9.0 earthquake off the coast of Japan on March 11, 2011 was so strong that the vibration was felt and detected by an orbiting satellite
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7rGrx TIL there is a city in New Mexico called "Truth or Consequences", which got its name after a radio show that turned 10 years old said it would air its anniversary program from the first city that renamed itself after the show
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YpOGv TIL of Jose Mujica, the president of Uruguay from 2010-2015, he was known as the "the world's humblest head of state" as he gave away around 90% of his $12,000 monthly salary to charity. He also led an austere lifestyle; he lived on a farm than in the presidential palace and drove a 1987 VW beetle.