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TIL there are only 13 people left who were born in the 19th century.

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xj85 TIL you can be too fat to go to jail
0wdk1 TIL that William Adams, an English navigator during the 1600's, became the first of his nation to reach Japan, and was recognized as one of the first ever Western samurai.
Eg6gw TIL the Special Activities Center (SAC) is a clandestine paramilitary division in the CIA whose motto 'Third Option' (Tertia Optio) refers to the US President's third option when "military force is inappropriate and diplomacy is inadequate".
nemE9 TIL In the 1960's McDonald's was prepared to abandon its logo of the golden arches of the letter M, but psychologist Louis Cheskin successfully urged the company to maintain this branding because of their "Freudian symbolism of a pair of nourishing breasts."
9wA6Q TIL that physicist Lawrence Langer took a nap on the Little Boy nuclear bomb. It was the only "place where there was room to lie down" while he was keeping the curious away from the bomb the night before the Enola Gay's bombing run.