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TIL there are still 5 people living who were born in the 1800s.

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Be8k TIL That a woman in Ohio was sentenced by a judge to sit in the “smelliest area” of a garbage dump for 8 hours, for neglecting her pet. “If you puke, you puke.”
b60W0 TIL the chemical formula of trisodium citrate is Na3C6H5O7 and is the additive that causes cheese to liquify without separation
GvYE TIL a pilot on Southwest flight 1248 quoted the movie “Airplane!” saying, “I picked a bad day to stop sniffin’ glue.” The plane then overran the runway, into a busy intersection, killing a 6 year old boy on the ground.
GYROg TIL that Violet Jessop survived the Titanic, Britannic, and Olympic disasters and is known as "Miss Unsinkable."
p8VGN TIL that during the middle ages in France, a nun started to uncontrollably meow and the behaviour quickly started spreading to the rest of the convent weirding out the surrounding commiunities until they were threathened to be whipped