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TIL: Babies are born without kneecaps

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PV0n TIL that the first black Deputy US Marshal of the Wild West was said to have arrested over 3,000 felons in his career, including his own son. He had his belt and hat shot off several times, but was never wounded himself.
woxQ6 TIL that 76% of the audience for The Simpsons is under 40 years old (as of November 2023)
V4pB TIL During the 1970’s an amazing experiment was undertaken where several families lived in an Iron Age village for fifteen months, the footage taken was later turned into a TV documentary
kO9Xm TIL that a butcher in Vienna, Austria made Sausages he learnt in Frankfurt, Germany, changing the recipe slightly and called them "Frankfurter". It got so famous that the world (including Germany) calls them Wiener now apart from the people in Austria who call it Frankfurter.
oNEr TIL traditional Samoans valued a bride’s virginity so much, the chief would break her hymen in public so the entire tribe could see his bloody fingers.