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

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mxKGp TIL Galaga (1981) had a predecessor: Galaxian (1979), which was the first popular video game to use RGB color graphics.
m1kvR TIL of Black Caesar. He was a West African pirate who operated during the Golden Age of Piracy. He served aboard the Queen Anne's Revenge of Edward Teach (Blackbeard) and was one of the surviving members of that crew following Blackbeard’s death at the hands of Lieutenant Robert Maynard in 1718.
R58lj TIL American citizens eat more than 124 kg of meat annually - the equivalent of half a cow and 50 chickens for each person each year
dDVmZ TIL about Charles I. D. Looff, a German manufacturer who built the first carousel on Coney Island, the historic Crescent Park carousel, and the Santa Monica Pier in California
161vV TIL about Oseola McCarty, a washerwoman from Hattiesburg, MS, who became one of the University of Southern Mississippi’s most celebrated benefactors. In 1995, she arranged for $150,000 of her savings to fund scholarships for students in financial need, a surprising amount given her modest earnings.