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TIL There is a 100-year-old woman still teaching math at her elementary school in Brooklyn

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pkJA TIL in 1986 a truck carrying sulfuric acid crashed in Spain - the driver and his wife were found dead, but there was no sign of their son, apart from his shoes. Interpol has called it the ‘strangest missing person case in Europe’
8aJVV TIL A Cincinnati hospital paid Neil Armstrong's family $6 million in a wrongful-death settlement after the astronaut and Apollo moonwalker died due to complications following a cardiovascular procedure. His sons have asserted that medical malpractice led to his death
QNlYa TIL About Early Onset (aka Precocious) Puberty, Which Can Happen To Girls As Young As 9
ep0Og TIL of Kroncong the name of a musical style and ukelele-like instrument from Indonesia that was adapted from the Portuguese Fado.
ADkrg TIL, villagers working in jungle wear face mask behind their heads to save themselves from the Bengal Tigers. Tigers have been seen following people wearing the mask, but they have not attacked. By the contrast 29 people who were not wearing mask were killed in the span of 18months.