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TIL a 108-year-old Santa Monica woman said in an interview of her extraordinarily long life, “It doesn’t pay to live too long.” She had long since outlived her husband, and her son had recently died in his 80s.

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MeQm TIL Average teacher salary in Switzerland in 2010 was $112000 per year
dBoQ TIL of superheating, the phenomenon in which a liquid is heated to a temperature higher than its boiling point, without boiling
ZpM64 TIL: people in the Early-to-Modern Era hired poor people to literally consume sins of the dead
D1yDP TIL an economy coffin is designed to drop a body into the grave then be reused, conserving the wood materials and allow for quicker body decomposition. It did not catch on.
D1x1J TIL that in 1973 the Who’s drummer Keith Moon passed out mid-show. The band continued without him for several songs before Townshend asked, "Can anyone play the drums? – I mean somebody good?" 19 year old Scot Halpin, who had bought scalped tickets came up and played the rest of the show.