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99wX TIL a UT-Austin undergrad wrote a paper proposing ratifying a long-dormant Constitutional amendment. He got a ‘C’, started a movement, and it was ratified in 1992.
Q9DE TIL there are approximately 5 million alligators in the U.S.
wLPLM TIL about the bradycardic response, a phenomenon where infants, when submerged in water, reflexively hold their breath as their heart rate slows and any water ingested is directed to the stomach. This reflex disappears around 6 months of age.
b67mj TIL That the deadliest loss for the British in the American Revolutionary War was in Nicaragua.
oBgYY TIL: The horror-comedy movie Scream was based on the real-life case of the Gainesville Ripper