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TIL The oldest person in the world is 127 years old.

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jNMmn TIL that fire fighters and others who inhaled Ground Zero air essentially lost 12 years of lung function
OoDo7 TIL that Joe Perry sold his 1959 Gibson Les Paul during his 1982 divorce. Later he found the guitar was owned by Slash. Perry called Slash and bugged him for years, offering to pay more than the guitar's worth. Years later at Joe's 50th birthday party, Slash finally gave him the guitar as a gift.
75yM TIL that when King William II of England was ‘accidentally’ shot through the lung with an arrow, his body was abandoned by the nobles, found by a peasant and returned to Winchester Cathedral by farmers.
j6rmj TIL that on 9/11 an FBI informant was making a covert recording in WTC 3 and just happened to catch the audio and panic of the first plane hitting the World Trade Center (first plane impact at 1:10:40, second at 1:27:28)
R7jLj TIL the CIA once tried to scare Pakistani children with Osama Bin Laden toys in which its skin would peel off to reveal a demon face.