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TIL 18 and 19 year olds are technically teenagers

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VMdPB TIL In 430 BC a plague originating in Egypt broke out- spreading to Persia, Libya and Athens. The plague killed more than a quarter of the population.
Egovx TIL, children born in the early to mid-1980s are called "The DuckTales Generation" in Hungary, because their first encounter with politics happened in 1993, when a DuckTales episode they've been waiting for all week was cut short to announce the death of Prime Minister József Antall.
7jLL TIL 3 of the first 5 US presidents died on July 4th.
JDvv TIL Charles XII of Sweden was embalmed well enough to recognize his features when exhumed 200 years after his death. Photographs show the gunshot wound to his head that killed him.
pYdRp TIL At the start of World War 2 the tops of pillar post boxes were painted with an invisible gas detection paint that would turn yellow in the event of a gas attack.