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TIL my ancestor lived to 128 years old and fought in the Glorious Revolution and the French Indian War.

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ZpZJY TIL about Japan Air Lines food poisoning incident. In-flight meal contaminated with a bacteria made 195 passengers and a flight attendant sick. 144 so serious they need to be hospitalized, 30 critical. JAL Catering Manager later committed suicide over the incident. He was the only fatal victim.
8aoPb TIL Manhattan's current population and density is 40% lower than it's peak, which was reached over 110 years ago in 1910.
woYj1 TIL Hirsoshima, Japan is one of the few places outside of the US that celebrates Martin Luther King Jr day, due to his outspoken views on nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament.
QJvkk Today I learned there's a term for diarrhea after high intensity running "Runners Trots"
rRNEw TIL that when Thomas Edison was confined to a wheelchair in the last years of his life, his friend Henry Ford bought one too, so that they could have wheelchair races