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TIL that due to the effect that gravity has on time, the core of the earth is approximately 2.5 years younger than the surface

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0wkj TIL the world’s oldest still-active gymnast (Johanna Quast) is 86 years old – and still demonstrates at a competitive level
8YJ8 TIL of Christian Heinreich Heineken, a child prodigy who by at the age of one, read the Pentateuch, and by the age of four wrote the “History of Denmark” and recited it when visiting the King of Denmark later the same year.
Meeom TIL musician Ice-T is the frontman of a metal band called Body Count.
8eaoX TIL The Suffragettes Pursued a Surprisingly Violent Campaign of Bombing and Arson from 1912 to 1914
OowEg TIL slavery was banned in the colony of Georgia for the first 15 years because the state was intended to help former inmates of debtors' prison become solvent. The colony's trustees didn't have any moral objections to slavery, they just didn't want landowners to become wealthy.