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TIL In 2018 the WHO classified ageing as a disease

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wLbEP TIL Éamon de Valera broke out of prison by getting a mold of a key in a candle and using a cartoonist, sent an image of the key in a cartoon to his contacts who made the key and sent it in baked inside a cake. It was too small, so they sent another before just sending him the tools to make a key.
dko7 TIL Portugal decriminalized all drugs back in 2001 and the number of addicts has been halved since then, and there were no negative effects on the country.
bGgQ TIL Russian criminal and prisoners would get large chest and back tattoos of Stalin and Lenin, not out of respect, but to avoid having internal organs damaged during beatings by guards who would not denigrate the images.
DEyr TIL Thomas Edison abandoned his research into x-rays when he damaged his eyesight, and his assistant had his arms amputated from repeated exposure. “Don’t talk to me about X-rays,” he said. “I am afraid of them.”
REWw TIL The the term “Taco Tuesday” is legally owned by Taco John’s and they have issued hundreds of cease and desist letters demanding companies stop holding Taco Tuesdays.