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TIL that seven people in the United States still live in an iron lung.

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wLjMY TIL In Sri Lanka, reservoirs built more than thousand years ago are still used today
xV1j7 TIL Jackie Jackson, eldest brother of the Jackson 5, was drafted by the Chicago White Sox but decided to stay in music
GYA0J TIL After WW1, Japan took over Germany's Shandong holdings in China, despite China having been promised them, after supporting the allies with 100,000 labourers at a time when Britain was so undermanned they felt they'd lose the war.
KBVB TIL The Areni-1 shoe is a 5,500-year-old leather shoe that was found in 2008 in near perfect condition. For perspective, the shoes are 400 years older than those found at Stonehenge, and 1,000 years older than those found at the Great Pyramid of Giza.
WkOyB TIL the first woman elected president of a country was Vigdís Finnbogadóttir of Iceland, who won the 1980 presidential election as well as three others to also become the longest-serving non-hereditary female head of state in history (almost exactly 16 years in office)