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TIL Germans are forced to retire at a specific age

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MeD60 TIL Alexander the Great wept when he heard Anaxarchus teach about an infinite number of worlds. When his friends inquired what ailed him, "Is it not worthy of tears," he said, "that, when the number of worlds is infinite, we have not yet become lords of a single one?"
KemJ TIL of Richard Jewell-A security guard who, initially hailed by the media as a hero, was later considered a suspect in the 1996 Olympic Games bombing in Atlanta. Despite never being charged, he underwent a “trial by media” with great toll on his personal and professional life
9wpWX TIL that a few billion years ago an Earth day was only about 19 hours
8ewVK TIL Dolphin moms use ‘baby talk’ with their newborns
00yv TIL Ray Bradbury attributed his habit of daily writing to an encounter as a child with a carnival entertainer, Mr. Electrico, who touched Bradbury on the nose with an electrified sword, made his hair stand on end, and shouted, “Live forever!” Bradbury wrote every single day of his life thereafter.