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TIL there are are areas of the world being referred to as “blue zones” where people, perhaps as a result of diet and social structures, can be up to 4 times as likely to reach 90 years old as people in the U.S.

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NZGb TIL that Pope Francis, leader of the Catholic Church once worked as a bouncer in an Argentinean bar
4XV5g TIL an island was christened a war ship by the British Navy during a French blockade. The HMS Diamond Rock was fortified with cannons and spent 17 months hammering any passing French ships, and to this day anyone in the British Navy is required to salute the rock when they pass it.
nWlNY TIL that no babies are born with freckles because they haven't been in the sun long enough for specks to develop.
lKbK TIL Lark Voorhies (Lisa Turtle from Saved by the Bell) wrote a book rife with grammatical errors and insane ramblings called “True Light”. The first paragraph alone has over 70 commas.
XEvJ6 TIL Machine Learning models can be fooled badly. It confidently recognizes images which are unrecognizable to humans.