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TIL that there are 22 people still alive who are verified born in the 1800s. Only one of them is male.

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NlW6 TIL of the almost 200 current member states of the United Nations, the British have, at some point in history, invaded and established a military presence in 171 of them.
j6o7R TIL about the Alipore Central Jail, a prison in Kolkata, India where political prisoners were kept under British rule. It is no longer operational as a jail. The jail site has been now developed into an independence museum in memory of the martyrs who were imprisoned and executed here.
XEMKj TIL Sir Isaac Newton had a dog called “Diamond” who knocked over a candle and set fire to twenty years worth of his research.
M7Vob TIL that Mehmet II found bodies of about twenty thousand men, women, and children impaled by Vlad the Impaler when he entered Targoviste.
8DX8 TIL a no-beef diet is not much worse for the environment than a vegetarian diet