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TIL Japan has over 50,000 people that are over 100 years old

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AD6Wx TIL about an elaborate complex of temples in Caral, Peru, which was a thriving metropolis at the time the Egyptian pyramids were being built, and is the oldest know city in the Americas. It was inhabited between 2,600 and 2,000 BCE.
6XgW TIL Adolf Hitler was one of the first recorded users of Anabolic Steroids. It was later used on Nazi troops to make them more sexually agressive, muscular and mean fighters.
awa6N TIL on Nov 22, 1963 while watching TV reports of JFK's death, Annie Shapiro had a stroke and slipped into a coma. 29 years later she awoke in bed as a 79 year old grandmother still married to her husband. Her first words upon sitting up were "Turn on the television. I want to watch I Love Lucy"
VBYVk TIL In 1952, during his stint in the Navy, Jimmy Carter was once lowered into a damaged nuclear reactor as part of the clean-up process. This resulted in him having measurable levels of radiation in his urine for about the next six months.
yQoYM TIL of Low Background Steel, steel produced in pre-nuclear ages, which is the only kind of steel that works for various medical and scientifical equipment, since the post-nuclear steel is contaminated by radiation.