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TIL of the White Horse Tavern in Newport, RI. It was opened in 1673 and is currently the oldest operating bar/restaurant in the United States.

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N7yxN TIL of the Axial Age is era between 8th to the 3rd century BCE when many great sages appeared, including the Buddha, Socrates, Confucius, Jeremiah and the mystics of the Upanishads. It's been described by as 'a deep breath, a pause for liberty between the age of empires' where a new humanity began.
wV08 TIL the ageing process stops around 90. The death rate stops increasing after this age, so a 100-year-old doesn’t have a greater chance of dying than 93 years old.
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