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

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6AyZ TIL that the reason the Famicom (and later the Super Famicom and SNES) had an eject lever was not because pulling out the game was bad for the cartridge but because the designer, Masayuki Uemura, felt that it could entertain children even when ejecting games
mxnmo TIL nobody under the age of 32 has ever experienced a cooler-than-average month
79wr TIL that in 2011, Portland Oregon discarded 7.8 MILLION GALLONS of drinking water because a man urinated into the reservoir.
XE6KD TIL The youngest ever powerball winner was a 19-year-old from South Carolina who won a $35.3 million jackpot after he heard a voice and "the winning numbers in his head"
ADbKx TIL of the most famous person ever to have literally been in a pickle, Horatio Nelson. He died at sea, so the surgeon on board pickled his body in brandy to preserve it for the long trip to England. 2 weeks into the journey, gaseous pressures burst the cask lid, making Nelson "rise from the dead."