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TIL Margaret Ann Neve was the first recorded female super-centenarian and second validated human to live to 110 years old (1792-1903).

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neGxd TIL that the Forensic seismology machine that they use to detect nuclear bombs going off in Florida is Falsely alerts that a nuclear bomb went off somewhere in the world every Sunday because the Garbage man comes by the facility and slams the lid of the dumpster too hard, setting off the Detector.
16wZX TIL=Plastic has become such a central component of modern life, it has found its way into our Earth's crust itself, becoming a geological marker. But there's an upside: The plastic is so obvious in the Earth's crust, it gives an exact timetable for when that layer of ground became solid Earth.
Z5D TIL: A police Lamborghini in Italy was equipped with a refrigerator cooler for the quick transportation of donor organs from fatal accidents.
j9lM TIL that gold miners in Peru are clear-cutting forests, washing down the soil with high pressure hoses and putting mercury on the slurry to mine gold, ruining everything they touch.
Y9Xv TIL that the weird white spots you see when you look up at the blue sky are actually white blood cells moving through blood vessels in your retina.