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XyP6 TIL of 96 year old Harold Fairweather, widely believed to be the oldest person with a living parent. His mother is Violet Brown and is of 116 years of age.
NxBE TIL People with psychopathic tendencies have an impaired sense of smell, which points to inefficient processing in the front part of the brain. Those scoring highly on psychopathic traits were more likely to actively struggle to both identify smells & discern the difference between smells.
evVD TIL Jeanne Calment, a French supercentenarian, met Vincent Van Gogh and watched the Eiffel Tower constructed.
0wLyy TIL the Chinese women who presented the medals in the 2008 Olympics had to be 168-174 centimetres, weigh up to 55 kg, and have an upper to lower-body ratio of 11:13. They trained daily by balancing books on their heads, clenching chopsticks between their teeth, and jamming paper between their knees
w1dJ TIL that Robert Louis Stevenson wrote the first manuscript of Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde in three days, and then after his wife’s criticism, burned it and rewrote it again in three days.