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TIL that 21 of the 50 oldest living people are Japanese

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wBY1 TIL that in 1949, a member of the New Zealand parliament was deemed to have used “unparliamentary language” for saying of another member that “his brains could revolve inside a peanut shell for a thousand years without touching the sides.”
r5e4 TIL in the 1960’s oilmen would shoot flaming arrows to relight gas tower flames.
bXxN TIL that Flavor Flav is a musical prodigy. By the time he started performing with Public Enemy, he was proficient in 15 different instruments, from drums to oboe.
a8w9b TIL an average cumulus cloud weighs 1.1 million pounds
0ayy TIL that Robert Ballard, the man who discovered the wreck of the Titanic, was secretly funded by the US Navy which wanted him to find their two sunken nuclear submarines first