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TIL that there is only one validated living man born before 1913, and only eight born before 1914.

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ZLeo TIL Soul Asylum’s “Runaway Train” video helped find 26 missing children.
ADZB TIL the Pyrenean ibex is the only species ever to become ‘un-extinct’ after being cloned in 2009 – although the clone lived only 7 minutes.
EROV TIL Salvador Dali would take micronaps by sitting in a chair holding a metal key above a plate. When he fell asleep, he’d drop the key and wake himself up.
VBQVp TIL about a man who committed suicide then had his heart donated to another man who also committed suicide after marrying the first man's widow.
m1Pop TIL the first submersible, the USS Turtle, was built in 1775.