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TIL 22 of the 50 oldest living people were born in Japan.

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jNvbv TIL Teena Marie's legal battle with Motown Records over her contract resulted in "The Brockert Initiative" which made it illegal for a record company to keep an artist under contract without releasing new material for that artist and allows the artist to sign and release with another label.
eLvJ TIL Russia is warming 2.5 times faster than the rest of the globe, because Soviet Officials felt that pollution control was an unnecessary hindrance to economic development and industrialization.
BMpx TIL Rats laugh when tickled
kab7 TIL that at the 2012 London Olympics, American athlete Manteo Mitchell broke his leg 200 meters into his 400 meter leg of the race. Despite this, he finished fast enough for his team to qualify for the finals.
lEOA TIL “yea” and “nay” were quite a bit more complicated than just archaic versions of “yes” and “no”. Yes and no used to be the responses to a question posed in the negative, whereas yea and nay were the responses to positively framed questions.