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TIL There is a 91 year old woman in Japan who paints every day, scans her images and upkeeps her art blog all by herself.

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16wx4 TIL the woodlouse, a common crustacean that goes back 100 million years, has over 50 different common names used around the world
J1vRk TIL Ships will store and purposefully dump oil into the ocean to create calm seas around them, called storm oil
7rBnX TIL of Kiritimati (Christmas) Island in the Central Pacific Ocean- population: 6500. Its villages are named London, Paris, Poland, and Banana.
PYa7L TIL that over 390,000 people in Britain listed their religion as Jedi in 2001
J1R1j TIL Italian hand gesturing like came about in order to facilitate communication across 7 main different regional Italian dialects