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TIL that “Blue Zones” don’t really exist and are the result of bad data and pension fraud over inflating the number of people who live to be 100+ years old.

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0Q0M TIL Paul McCartney once spent 10 days in jail in Japan after he smuggled half a pound of weed into the country. He said it was “the daftest thing” he’d ever done, but the weed was too good to flush.
b6lg0 TIL there is an annual competition for scientists to explain their PhD through interpretive dance
AERg TIL that Michelangelo’s “The Creation of Adam” is possibly the biggest fuck you to Catholic church. Background figures and shapes portrayed behind the figure of God resemble the anatomical structure of human brain. Which signifies that human brain is behind the myth of creation.
m1J5R TIL about the town of Los Algodones, Mexico. Situated on the border with the United States, over 350 dentists populate the small town in order to provide affordable dental care to American visitors, leading to the nickname "Molar City".
XE1R8 TIL "Yellow Journalism" was a 1890's term for journalism that presented little or no legitimately researched news and instead used eye-catching headlines, sensationalism, and scandal-mongering.