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TIL that Emilio Estevez is four years older than Charlie Sheen (aka Carlos Irwin Estevez)

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PYMKn TIL that every Canadian citizen in Canada can vote, including convicts and persons diagnosed with mental illness, with one exception - the Chief Electoral Officer.
5VLPp TIL about the Widowhood Effect: When a husband or wife dies, the surviving spouse faces a higher risk of dying over the next few months.
8epyL TIL that the longest word in the English language is over 189,000 letters long and takes over 3 hours to pronounce
WE8N TIL a man was hit by a Metro train going 70mph and his flying body parts injured a woman. She sued his estate on the theory that “"If you do something as stupid as this guy did, you have to be responsible for what comes from it”
R7ZLQ TIL that we measure angles out of 360 degrees because the Sumerians divided the circular path of the sun in the sky into 360 degrees to track the sun's daily position, it took about 360 days for the sun to complete a full circuit across the sky. This all happened approximately 2400 BC.