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TIL Irene Triplett, the last person to receive benefits from the 1861-5 US Civil War, died in 2020

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wgZY TIL Only 20-33% of the words in the English dictionary are Germanic in origin, but among the 25 top nouns, verbs and adjectives the percentages are 60%, 80% and 68%, respectively.
XjlD TIL If kidney cells didn’t have aquaporins, which allow cells to reclaim water from urine, humans would have to excrete about 180 L of urine per day.
KdQ9 TIL isaac newton and several other scientific gurus died virgins
G7E1 TIL that the 27-year partner of Sally Ride, the first American woman and youngest American ever to travel in space, is denied benefits because of the Defense of Marriage Act
LkNb0 TIL in 1875 three French men traveled to a height of 28,000ft in a balloon. When it landed only one man remained alive and was permanently deaf.