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TIL Robert Clive, a British Governor and General in India had a pet tortoise named Adwaita. Clive died in 1774. Adwaita died in 2006, 232 years later at the age of c.255. She was born before the 7 Years War, the founding of the USA and the French Revolution.
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TIL If you live to age 70, your heart will have beat around 2.5 billion times
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TIL in 1918 at a Boy Scout medal ceremony, Teddy Roosevelt attempted to make a joke at Theodor Geisel’s expense by exclaiming “What’s this boy doing here?” but it backfired, causing the future Doctor Seuss to develop a lifelong fear of crowds.
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TIl that in 1964 a Swedish journalist did an experiment where he had a chimpanzee named Peter make a series of pantings and then submitted them to an art show as by Pierre Brassau to see if critics could tell the difference between avant grande art and art by a chimp. Most critics fell for it
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TIL people who listen to country music are more likely to get depression.