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TIL Dr. Howard Tucker is the world's oldest practicing doctor at 102 with 77 years of practice. He also passed the bar examine at 67. He is a neurologist and works as an expert witness in medical related legal cases.

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d798 TIL of a British soldier who fought in both world wars, was shot in the face, head, stomach, ankle, leg, hip, and ear, survived two plane crashes, tunneled out of a POW camp, bit off his own fingers when a doctor refused to amputate them, and said of WWI, “Frankly, I had enjoyed the War.”
l7JwV TIL that the United Kingdom has an “uncodified constitution”: Rather than a single document serving as the source of its laws, various Acts of Parliament, court cases, and unwritten conventions together serve this purpose.
QvYa TIL Homer Hickam, subject of the movie October Sky, gave a high school junior a scholarship to the United States Advanced Space Academy when she was expelled and arrested for an exploding science experiment because Hickam went through the same ordeal for testing rockets in his youth.
0rKy TIL in Italy six scientists were charged with manslaughter because they didn’t predict an earthquake which killed 309 people.
NOLM TIL That a man who ran a Chevy dealership by himself for 50 years had some 500 cars in storage from the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s that just sat, one of which had just over 1 mile on the odometer. They sold most of the cars for $2.8m at auction.