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TIL that Scientologists advocate that childbirth should be a silent process with no talking or shouting otherwise it can lead to childhood mental trauma.

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4kV8J TIL that in Connecticut, high school graduates earn an average of $11,439 more annually than non-Graduates, which is the largest gap in the United States.
b6X57 TIL of spy novels that were so accurate that politicians read them to learn about the real world. Real spies told Gérard de Villiers—creator of the popular French "SAS" series—of their secret acts, then enjoyed reading about them in fictionalized form.
9XZM TIL A group of TX prison inmates broke out of a holding cell to save a guard who had passed out with no pulse. The inmates got help to revive the guard; then they were locked back in the cell with a thank you.
W76M4 TIL about Capitan Ricky Robin, a shrimper who rode out Hurricane Katrina on the shrimp trawler that he built in high school shop class, only to rescue people who were flooded out of their homes, floating on whatever debris they could cling to, for days after the storm until the waters receded.
4XYnb TIL the Comanche code word for Adolf Hitler (used by the Code Talkers during WWII) was “crazy white man.”