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TIL that mothers who wait till 25 to have their first kid, are 11% more likely to live to 90

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awQ6M TIL a computer program named “World One,” which was developed in 1973 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), predicts 2020 to be the year when a series of catastrophic events kick off a 20-year process of a slow demise of human civilization.
JDX1 TIL in 1998, a woman hit and killed a cyclist when she was distracted by her Tamagotchi.
Br5rb TIL that Roman Emperor Nero during gladiatorial fights looked at the arena through a concave emerald to eliminate the glare of the sun and his nearsightedness. Those may have been the first sunglasses in history.
5Y76Q TIL that 7-year-old Julie Ann Crumpling was sent to jail in 1870 for ‘stealing’ a pram to play dollies. She was Oxford Jail’s youngest prisoner, sentenced to hard labour for 7 days. The judge wanted to send her away for THREE months.
yVY6w TIL about Anton Syndrome, in which some blind people insist they can see, even making up things they see though they are obviously blind