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TIL A British MP tried to fake his own death, and was only discovered in Australia after being mistaken for another famous missing person. He was later found to be a Czech spy and died from a heart attack he suffered on live TV.

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16WJX TIL people older than 75 years who have cognitive abilities as good as someone in their 20s and 30s are called superagers. A lot of their superaging comes from life-long exercise, connection with nature, and life-long mental activities. Robert De Niro, Rusin Bond, and Dadi Bhagwani have superaged.
EnQX TIL during a screening of “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” at the White House President Reagan told Steven Speilberg “there are a number of people in this room who know that everything on that screen is absolutely true”. According to Spielberg the President said this with a totally straight face.
VMrE8 TIL, the Monterey Cyprus only grows in two small regions near Carmel and Monterey CA. At one point it was a part of a larger forest that extended to the continental shelf.
N7X4N TIL The former leader of Nigerian militant group Boko Haram was a flat earther (someone who denies that the Earth is a globe)
x7jw TIL a chimpanzee named Frodo has impregnated his own mother, killed a human infant, attacked cartoonist Gary Larson, and beat the head of primatologist Jane Goodall so badly, he almost broke her neck.