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TIL that normal blood pressure used to be considered 100 plus your current age.

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OQKX TIL that in 2006, Wikipedia had to permanently block all IP’s from the U.S. Congress. Why? Because they wouldn’t stop editing each others pages.
reQ4 TIL when Microsoft bought all rights to Charles O'Rear’s iconic ‘Bliss’ photo, depicting green hills and a blue sky, they wanted the original film. When the courier learned how valuable it was, they declined to ship it due to lower insurance limits; O'Rear had to personally deliver it to Seattle.
wLRDY TIL The chief prosecutor for the United States in the Nuremberg Trials was Ben Ferencz, a 27 year old Jewish American lawyer who had never tried a case before. He investigated Nazi war crimes and went on to help establish the International Criminal Court. He's still alive today at 101.
Wadd TIL of the Demon Core, a spherical mass of plutonium that killed and injured several scientists during criticality experiments
WkRGA TIL there is a small village in Switzerland called "Chäs und Brot" (Cheese and Bread) . It's got its name in 1339, after Bernese troops ate cheese and bread there the evening before the battle of Laupen. The next day, they won decisively against the Burgundian army.