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TIL of Granny, the oldest orca in the world who has been swimming since 1911. She’s 105 years old.

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4gA6 TIL China shut down nearby factories and ordered half the cars off the road to reduce pollution during the Olympics.
ADwln TIL about the hijacking of the oil tanker Brillante Virtuoso in 2011 in the Gulf of Aden. A story about pirates, international fraud, cover ups, and murder.
J1Q5B TIL that subacute sclerosing panencephalitis or Dawson disease is a rare presentation of the measles virus that can survive in the body long term without provoking an immune response. Once symptoms develop (an average of 7 years after primary measles infection), the outcome is invariably fatal.
ZpVYY TIL the oldest newspaper in North America is the Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph having been founded in 1764 as the Quebec Gazette. The newspaper still exists today
E11gd TIL an American woman never learned what happened to her husband, whose plane was shot down over Les Ventes, France during WWII. She finally got her congressman to reopen his case in 2011. She was shocked to learn the town had been memorializing him and his sacrifice for 67 years.