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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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Gv6j TIL all the “meat” on a Subway cold-cut combo is actually turkey-based.
QO8a TIL that while North and South America are technically connected by land, there is a stretch of swamp and forest called the Darién Gap where there are no roads, making it impossible to traverse between the two continents by car
PwDV TIL: When Picasso was interrogated by an SS officer about his painting Guernica, “Did you do that?” Picasso replied, “No, you did.”
9Y1oX TIL the first ever Police car was an electric wagon with a speed of 16 mph (26 km/h) and travel 30 mi (48 km) before its battery needed to be recharged
1NxD TIL Beverly Cleary (author of popular children’s books Beezus and Ramona and Henry Huggins) is still alive at 101 years old