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TIL The average age of becoming a grandparent in the US is 50 years for women and a couple of years older for men. Most grandparents have multiple (5 to 6 on average) grandchildren

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R7x16 TIL researchers did an experiment in 1999 on rats to see how long they could live without sleep. They mostly lasted 2 weeks of this torture before succumbing.
gr077 TIL researchers caused the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome epidemic by telling parents to put babies to sleep on their stomach
WVkA TIL Archaeologists unearth 5,000-year-old ‘third-gender’ caveman,
e0dP4 TIL about syllable stress: When most words are used as a noun the stress is on the first syllable 'RE-cord' and when used as a verb, the stress is on the second syllable 're-CORD'
e0l46 TIL Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith first met his doppelganger, actor Will Ferrell, at the premier of the film The Ladies Man. After the two finally met, Ferrell looked at Smith and said, completely deadpan, “You are very handsome” before walking away.