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

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neVjW TIL of Michel Lotito, who dissembled and consumed (among other things) 18 bicycles, 15 shopping carts, 7 TV’s and 1 Cessna aircraft. He was awarded a brass plaque by the Guinness Book of Records, which he also ate.
pn5O TIL that the symbols used to censor swear words are called grawlixes
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Zplxv TIL there are 8 Mediterranean seas. In oceanography, a Mediterranean sea is defined as a mostly enclosed body of water with limited exchange with outer oceans, where water circulation is primarily driven by salinity and temperature differences rather than winds or tides.