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TIL Baby Boomers are dying off at a rate of about 4,600 people per day

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kOVV1 TIL in New Zealand you require neither licencing or training to captain a recreational boat.
xmVw TIL a loaf of bread made in Pompeii in first century AD was discovered. Impressed on it was a Roman bread stamp, which bakeries were required to do to prevent fraud.
PYg1L TIL Gandhi, the famously non-violent leader of the Indian independence movement, sent letters to Hitler pleading with him to avoid war noting that he himself "shunned the method of war not without considerable success"
D45r TIL if your name is based on Scottish ancestral names, Mc means “son of”, and “O” means grandson of.
a84QJ TIL after a serious accident that left him with a permanent injury, Emperor Maximilian I became mordibly depressed in his later year. For the last four years of his life, he wouldn't travel anywhere without his coffin