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TIL that the world’s oldest social housing complex, “Fuggerei”, which is still inhabited today, has not raised its rent of 0.88 Euros since 1523

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E17yW TIL that the International Space Station Has Better Internet Than Most of Us After Its Latest Upgrade. With its new connection, the ISS now has a 600 megabit-per-second (Mbps) connection.
xa0o TIL: Britain was still paying off its WWII debts owed to America & Canada as recently as 2006. The last payment of $83.25 was wired to America 12/29/06; 6 years late, due to intermittent financial difficulties, having negotiated a 50 year payment plan in 1950.
MeVeW TIL when Gandhi's wife was stricken with pneumonia, doctors told her husband that a shot of penicillin would heal her, he refused to have "alien" medicine used and she died. Soon after, Gandhi caught malaria and, relenting from the standard applied to his wife, allowed doctors to save his life.
5eR8 TIL A fictitious soft drink was created to prove the effectiveness of advertising on buses. So many people started demanding it that the drink actually starting being made by restaurants and soft drink companies
eMv6 TIL that the only Japanese passenger on the RMS Titanic‍ ‘​s disastrous maiden voyage survived the ship’s sinking, but found himself condemned and ostracised by the Japanese public, press and government for his decision to save himself rather than go down with the ship.