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TIL The oldest person alive is 116 and was born in 1907

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kR0e TIL US Ensign Chester Nimitz was court-martialed and reprimanded for grounding a destroyer in 1908. He would become Commander in Chief, Pacific Fleet during WWII, and Chief of Naval Operations after the war.
PWgZ TIL Guy Fawkes is the reason we call guys “guys”. From the tradition of burning hideous effigies of him on 5 November, the word came to mean “ugly man”, and then just “man”
KYvLE TIL That the LAPD has more helicopters than dogs.
6EbYW TIL that Oviraptor, which is latin for egg taker, is a misnomer. The first discovered specimen was next to what were thought to be protoceratops eggs, so it was presumed to be an egg eater. It later turned out that those were Oviraptor eggs, meaning it was brooding them, not eating them.
LDdV TIL in 2005 Scientists found an individual nerve cell that fired only when subjects were shown pictures of Jennifer Aniston