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TIL that both Britain's current oldest woman and oldest man were born on the same day - 29th March 1908!

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dv5E TIL of the Stacks Project. It is an open-source textbook with ~4700 pages, made by many mathematicians with the intention of collecting all the prerequisite knowledge required to understand an extremely abstract mathematical object known as ‘algebraic stack’.
OoEOg TIL there's a Machine gun Nest at Hoover Dam.
R7DO8 TIL That former astronaut Scott Parazynski took a moon rock to the top of Mount Everest. He took the moon rock and a rock from the top of Mount Everest and gave them to then current astronaut George Zamka. He then took both rocks into space on the International Space Station.
8aEYK TIL of a farm in Japan where pigs are given green tea in place of water to help with stress relief, flavor, and potential disease
6EelZ TIL a therapy cat named Oscar predicted the impending death of some 50 terminally ill patients by napping next to them a few hours before they died. After he accurately predicted 25 deaths, staff started calling family members of residents as soon as they discovered him sleeping close to someone