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TIL the average gamer is 34 years old and 72 percent are age 18 or older

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wLY1J TIL during his year in space, astronaut Scott Kelly's feet became very soft "like newborn baby feet", because all the calluses fell off due to weightlessness.
kOPw1 TIL the children's book 'Love You Forever' simple four-lined verse was a poem the author would sing silently to himself after his wife gave birth to two stillborn babies.
5B5r TIL an episode of ‘Peppa Pig’ had to be banned in Australia because it taught children that spiders aren’t that scary. It was considered too dangerous to teach Australian kids that spiders are not to be feared.
W77EY TIL that Mark Twain, the author of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn served under the Confederate Militia, but quit after a few weeks.
J1Oev TIL that taking fingerprints of those arrested by law enforcers is an official practice which goes back to Ancient Babylon, during the reign of Hammurabi (1792–1750 BCE)