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TIL that there are less than 325,000 centenarians living worldwide.

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LQ5em TIL that hotels collect guests’ used soaps which are then scraped to remove hair and and other stuff, then melted down and made into new soaps.
rPRw TIL Louis C.K. wrote and directed the cult-classic film “Pootie Tang,” which Roger Ebert called a “trainwreck” that was “not in a releasable condition.”
J1rN4 TIL that in 1792, the U.S. Mint produced the 'Silver Center Cent,' a coin featuring a small silver plug at its center to adjust its weight and value. This innovative design was inspired by Thomas Paine's proposal to create a coin with a one-cent value without making it excessively heavy.
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