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

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b94GQ TIL of Jordan Anderson. After gaining his freedom from slavery and being asked by his former master to come back to work, Mr. Anderson wrote a deadpan style letter asking for 25 years back pay.
W7WmB TIL researchers compared 100+ rewilded sites in Scotland to neighboring non-rewilded land. Bird species were up 261%. Breeding territories up 546%. Bumblebees and butterflies increased tenfold. One ecologist said: "The results are astonishingly clear."
LkOEr TIL Star Wars composer John William's son is the lead singer for the rock group Toto
BrwZr TIL about the 1958 destruction of Ripple Rock, an underwater mountain in southwest British Columbia. It took three years to place over 1,000 tons of explosive in tunnels under the mountain, and it was one of the largest non-nuclear planned explosions on record.
QjLk TIL in the most famous account of her birth, Aphrodite was created when the titan Kronos castrated his father, Uranus. When the genitals fell into the sea, Aphrodite was born. This would also make her the oldest of the Gods and Goddesses.