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TIL that Charlie, from the 1971 film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, never acted again, and recently retired from his large animal practice as a veterinarian.

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GYpL5 TIL: a study found that if you cant sit down and then get back up without using your hands or knees as support you are twice as likely to die in six years as someone who can (age 51-80)
gM5Y9 TIL Erskine Childers, a propagandist for the IRA during the Civil War, shook the hands of the men in the firing squad at his execution, and had his son promise to do the same for the men who signed his death warrant. His last words were “Take a step or two forward, lads, it will be easier that way.”
jN7Qp TIL that Marion Stokes built an archive of network, local, and cable news, in her home, one tape at a time, recording every major (and trivial) news event until the day she died in 2012 at the age of 83 of lung disease.
Aeja TIL Patrick Stewart (age 76) is married to a 38 year old American woman
0PAy TIL that in 2007, an elderly man visited Auschwitz and recognized his father as one of the SS officers.