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TIL Your body is constantly replacing old cells with new ones at the rate of millions per second. By the time you finish reading this sentence, 50 million of your cells will have died and been replaced by others.

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ERbo TIL Christine Jorgensen, a transgender woman, was honored as “Woman of the Year” 62 years before Caitlyn Jenner was
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6EBGQ TIL Napoleon III reserved a prized set of aluminum cutlery for special guests at banquets. Less favored guests used gold knives and forks. Aluminium was a valuable and prized metal.
Zp8ZB TIL 3% of the general population has antisocial personality disorder: a mental health disorder characterized by disregard for other people.
DQPJD TIL that the city of York, England, had a store called "Ghost Merchants", specialized in the craft and sell of "York Ghosts", little figures of ghosts decorated with colors and details, a tradition that trace back to the victorian age.