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TIL of Andre-Francois Raffray, who paid a 90 year old woman approx $500/month to own her apartment after she passed away. He paid her $184,000 over 30 years until he died himself. She ended up being the oldest woman to ever live, living to the age of 122.

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6EJdY TIL that most of the 9/11 hijackers had no idea that they were on a suicide mission. Evidence shows that the majority likely believed that they were taking the planes hostage as a means of leveraging the release of Al-Qaeda prisoners. Only the men trained to fly the planes knew the truth.
YpjnG TIL about the Battle of Manila Bay (1898) which was a decisive victory for the US Navy where they sunk all seven Spanish cruisers plus a transport ship and only lost one American life: Chief Engineer Francis B. Randall, who died of a heart attack.
OlAg TIL that only THREE books have survived from the Maya Civilisation pre-European contact.
MmEm TIL that the Secret Service agent who saved Ronald Reagan’s life had been inspired to join the Service by a 1939 film that starred Ronald Reagan as a Secret Service agent.
R5xw TIL on the Indonesian island Tana Toraja, if a baby dies before he starts teething, the family cuts a hole in a tree and places the dead child inside. The tree regrows around the baby and absorbs it.