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

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rNGy4 TIL: Bananadine is a fictional chemical that was made up by the Berkeley Barb in 1967.
4XdLg TIL in 1984 an 8 year old girl with sickle cell disease developed acute myeloid leukemia. To treat the cancer, the doctors gave her chemo and a stem cell transplant from her sibling. Not only did this cure her cancer, but it cured her SCD too. She remains disease free nearly three decades later.
0dWXy TIL of Gunnar Sønsteby, a member of the Norwegian resistance in WW2, whose Oslo Gang stole the printing plates for the kroner from the Central Bank and assassinated the Nazi head of police for Norway. He was the most highly decorated Norwegian citizen at the time of his death.
XEm5P TIL after sensing a strong rise in Jewish prejudice, Einstein fled Germany a month before Hitler rose to power, avoiding the Holocaust. After reading what ended up happening, Einstein never set foot in Germany again and died in the US in 1955.
nwM7 TIL Google Executive Alan Eustace broke Felix Baumgartner’s record for highest skydive on October 24th, 2014.