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TIL humans may be only 20 years away from inventing immortality

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NXwB1 TIL The average healthy human produced 1 to 2 liters of snot per day
ADRxx TIL Gangsta's Paradise is just a cover with some changed lyrics of the song Pastime Paradise by Stevie Wonder
l7n41 TIL we don't know where Point Nemo is. The coordinates of the most remote spot in the ocean have only been calculated using published coastline datasets. No one has ever taken GPS readings at the three closest land points to Point Nemo which is what it would take to calculate it precisely.
vRWK TIL that London Mayor Boris Johnson saved a woman from being assaulted by a group of teenagers. The woman later called him her “Knight on a shining bicycle.”
V5R8 TIL that in 2013, California shut down an elder care facility but didn’t relocate the residents before the owners stopped operations. The janitor and cook stayed behind, unpaid, to give around-the-clock care to 16 patients for two days.