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TIL That Florence Nightingale Single-handedly Increased the Lifespan of Britains by 20 Years by Improving Sanitation of Private Residences

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n9MW TIL The faces on Mount Rushmore will outlast Neil Armstrong’s footprint on the moon. Armstrong’s lunar print is there to stay for about 1 million years. The faces on Mount Rushmore will still be here on Earth for 6 million years after the footprint is gone.
9bmG TIL Babies have an innate swimming reflex where they hold their breath and slow their heart rate in water until they are 6 months old.
o6xA TIL supermarkets often sell milk for cheaper than they paid for it, hoping you’ll graze the aisles on the way to the store fridge. This causes beef with the dairy industry, which claims that the practice mooves milk towards being undervalued by the public.
4kk4b TIL that the last pharaoh of Egypt, Caesarion, was assassinated by the first Roman emperor, Octavian Augustus, because he was afraid that he would later become a threat to himself and to the Roman empire.
kOea5 TIL Jonathan; a Tortoise Living on St. Helena, is the oldest confirmed living terrestrial animal on Earth. He is 186. When he was born George Washington had only been dead 33 years...and Abraham Lincoln was 22 years old.