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Today i learned that the majority of the supercentenarians (people who've reached the age of 110) in the United States are engaged in intentional or unintentional pension fraud.

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OGDd6 TIL “pedestrianism” used to be a major spectator sport. A common challenge was to walk 1000 miles in 1000 hours. Gambling was often involved.
6NmJ TIL Adwaita, the turtle, was born before Mozart, before the French Revolution, and his death was announced by CNN. His estimated age was just over 250 years. He died in 2006
1ad1X TIL Jane Stanford, founder of Stanford University, was murdered by strychnine poisoning. The president of the university at the time, David Starr Jordan, was suspected of covering up the murder. The killer was never found.
0wKPj TIL that Yuri Kondratyuk, Soviet pioneer of astronautics, while working in Siberia, built an enormous wooden grain elevator with a capacity of 13 000 tons without using any nails. Due to using such an unusual construction, he was arrested in suspicion of sabotage. The elevator stood till the 90s.
vPdg8 TIL The French cartoonist Nadar was the first person to take aerial photographs, shooting from a balloon, and the first to take photographs underground, taking pictures of the Paris Catacombs.