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TIL The International database on longevity keeps data on deaths at age 105+, and currently contains records on 18,959 individuals from 13 participating countries. They have held supercentenarian research seminars on people living over age 110 since 2000

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oBlKK TIL Joaquin Phoenix began calling himself "Leaf" as a child, having been inspired by spending time outdoors raking leaves and desiring to have a nature-related name like his siblings. This became the name he used as a child actor, until he changed it back to Joaquin at age 15.
9wAmB TIL Flowers, pinecones, shells, fruits, hurricanes and even spiral galaxies, all exhibit the Fibonacci sequence. Every number in the sequence is generated by adding together the two previous numbers. 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21…etc
woXQ8 TIL about the Moroccan Western Sahara Wall, 2700 km long and built to keep out guerilla fighters
xbVB TIL Layne Staley (former lead singer of Alice in Chains) was found over a week after he died not because his friends or family notified someone, but because his accountant noticed he hadn’t withdrawn money from his account in a week.
6EBKW TIL, Coolio attempted to crowd dive into a crowd of students, none of them caught him and instead he was beaten up with his shoes stolen