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TIL that Sarah Knauss, who was the oldest American to ever live (born 1880), was about to see three centuries in her lifetime, but ultimately died on December 30th, 1999, at the age of 119.

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kJ7BE TIL about "Virus: The Game", a 1997 video game in which players fight enemies within their own computer (the player's files and directories are represented by 3D rooms). Its advertising campaign involved a downloadable .exe file that simulated the deletion of Windows system files.
DYde TIL that a librarian found smallpox scabs stored inside a 19th century medical book. In the 1800s scabs from infected people would be inserted into healthy people as a means of vaccination. These scabs have the potential to shed light on The evolution of the small pox vaccine used in the Us today.
xVG5k TIL after the murder of his father, Genghis Khan went into poverty, even being enslaved at one point. It wasn’t until he was in his 50’s did he rise to power and become the Khan of Mongolia
6E9p8 TIL Dr. Burzynski a pioneering biochemist discovered a unique way of treating cancer patients with Antineoplastons thereafter enduring an ongoing ordeal against the FDA, The Texas Medical Board, The National Cancer Institute & other federal agencies.
LwRv TIL “Judas” goats helped eradicate invasive goats in the Galápagos Islands. These goats are sterilized, GPS tracked, and given hormones to attract other goats so that armed hunters could kill all the goats from a helicopter, but leave the Judas goats alive so they could be used to find more goats.