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TIL The oldest person in the USA was born in 1909, she lives with her 94-year old daughter and is cared for by her 68-year old granddaughter.

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Zv1Y TIL that there is only 1 woman in the top 100 chess players in the world, and no woman has ever won a world championship.
QJ9aE TIL that a number of Russian PoWs were selected for extermination in The Holocaust because they had "Asiatic Features".
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