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TIL The most generations alive in a single family has been 7. The great great great great grandparent being Augusta Bunge aged 109 years old

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dDp4Z TIL about Sarah Wells, a black Wisconsin woman who earned her High School Diploma at 92 years old. "I want to take a course in Botany... I do not know where else I can go, but I am sure there is something else I can do."
K9w9 TIL a shopping center in Australia is using classical music to stop teenagers from loitering
WAnN TIL that a man and his friends made it from NY to CA in 28 hours and 50 minutes going the fastest they can in a Mercedes
mPRx TIL André the Giant was so large by the age of 12 that he could not fit on the school bus, and so was driven to school by playwright Samuel Beckett
BZyx TIL in 2009 Stephen Colbert won a NASA competition to have a module of the ISS named after him, but NASA opted to name it ‘Tranquility’ instead. They did, however, name a treadmill on the ISS after him. It is called the Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill (C.O.L.B.E.R.T.)