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TIL that the human body may be incapable of living beyond 120 years due to genetic coding which may limit the amount of times our cells can divide.

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rNNJy TIL that Henry Ford believed jazz music was unwholesome. So, to protect wholesome culture, he used his money to have square dancing taught in public schools.
NJZM TIL of Pando, a grove of aspen trees in Utah that is actually a single organism with 40,000 stems (trunks). Some experts believe that Pando may be up to a million years old.
rMd1 TIL Canada’s 1886 Indian Act defined “person” as “an individual other than an Indian”
L4jm TIL that in Puerto Rico, about two people die, and 25 more are injured due to falling bullets from celebratory gunfire on New Years Eve.
xVxp0 TIL about Denny, the first remains discovered of a half-Denisovan, half-Neanderthal human