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TIL a non-smoking, 65-year-old male in excellent health today has a 43% probability of living to age 90, and a similar 65-year-old female has a 54% probability of living to 90

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kOyb7 TIL about Operation Platypus: in 1943, Winston Churchill randomly demanded a live platypus from Australia. The poor platypus (named Winston, of course) was sent across the ocean to Liverpool but died just 4 days before the arrival when the ship got attacked by a U-boat attack.
EX8d TIL U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas did not grow up speaking English. Instead, he spoke a creole language known as Gullah that began among coastal slave communities. Thomas has said the reason he rarely speaks publicly is because he does not want any traces of it to come out in his speech
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