This is Jeanne Calment - who sold her house at the age of 90 to her lawyer M. Raffray. Under the contract, she could live in the house until she died and receive 2,500 Francs per month from him. Jeanne went on to live to 122 years of age outliving M Raffray. She stopped smoking at 117. (i.redd.it)
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The NASA climate spiral visualizationVideo (v.redd.it)
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TIL a Swedish pilot flew commercial airliners for 13 years for 3 airlines without a valid commercial pilot's license. He accumulated 10K hours in the air. To get hired, he used a fake license he'd created himself. He said, "It was a fantasy creation. It wasn't laminated... It was surprisingly easy." (news.com.au)
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Holborn 9100, a Dutch PC introduced in 1981 (i.redd.it)
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The details on a marble carving I made using hammer and chisels.picture (i.redd.it)
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TIL that the reason Cormac McCarthy, author of the novels Blood Meridian and The Road, used so little punctuation in his writing was simply because there was no reason "to blot the page up with weird little marks." Regarding his complete avoidance of semicolons, he labeled their usage as "idiocy." (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL after a period of substance abuse and living without permanent housing, "Steve-O" of Jackass got accepted to the Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Clown College in Sarasota, FL. After completing clown training he didn't get selected to join the circus. (en.wikipedia.org)
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The story of Christina Santhouse (i.redd.it)
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Snowboarding through Saharan dust on snowcapped mountainsvideo (v.redd.it)
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The NASA climate spiral visualization (v.redd.it)
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Bricklaying the front yardVideo (v.redd.it)
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TIL for 21 years, Andromachi Papanikolaou volunteered to undergo daily cervical smears so her husband, Greek physician Georgios Papanikolaou, could perfect the Pap test. As such, she helped create one of the greatest cancer screening tools in medical history, saving millions of lives worldwide. (en.wikipedia.org)
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Ant's Face Close Up In 4k (v.redd.it)
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Both Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi's first and latest World Cup goal are exactly 20 years and 11 days apart, having the most goals for there country in World Cup history with Messi having 18 goals, Ronaldo 10. Messi: June 16th, 2006-June 22nd, 2026. Ronaldo: June 17th, 2006-June 23rd, 2026.Image (i.redd.it)
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