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TIL in the United States, people who turn 100 years old receive a letter from the President, congratulating them on their longevity.

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69lyw TIL In the 1580s, a Franciscan Friar named Martin Ignacio de Loyola made the first eastward circumnavigation of Earth. He was also the first man to circumnavigate the globe in both directions and the first to use overland routes in circumnavigation.