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TIL that Chain-smoking is referred to smoking continously by lighting a new cigarette from the stub of the last one smoked.

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oRYrA TIL the University of Bologna (a public research university in Bologna, Italy) was founded in 1088 and, having never been out of operation, holds the title of the oldest university in the world.
x6NJB TIL Johann Bücheler built Switzerland's first guillotine in 1836 after another carpenter became depressed. He earned 160 francs but became an outcast. To earn some money he build a bonsai guillotine and beheaded celery.
WkdAN TIL Sabiha Gökçen, one of the 13 children adopted by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, became at the age of 23 the world's first female fighter pilot.
m1vXp TIL that the hooded pitohuis is a poisonous bird. In 1990, when museum workers tried to put the bird in a museum, their hands began to burn. They are the first documented poisonous birds.
ZoEo TIL Billy Joel received his high school diploma at age 43. In 1967 he was playing at a piano bar to help his mother make ends meet which interfered with his attendance, causing him to miss a crucial English exam. Decades later he completed the work.