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TIL that 21 of the 50 oldest living people are Japanese

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d8GG8 TIL Thurgood Marshall had to memorize the U.S. Constitution in high school as punishment for misbehaving in class.
b64jN TIL that historically, syphilis was treated by infecting patients with malaria to induce fever. About 15% of patients died from malaria, but this was considered better than the near-certain death from syphilis.
OoKbY TIL in spite of rumours of their enemity, Salieri and Mozart composed together a four-minute piece of music, that was considered lost until a copy was found in 2015
OZB7 TIL the USSR beat the US at nearly everything in the space race (besides putting humans on the Moon)