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TIL that the average 18-year-old adult is only about halfway done with "mental puberty"

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XKVD TIL before refrigeration, people would drop frogs in their milk to keep it fresh. Studying this has led to finding new antibiotic substances.
6EZWw TIL that evaporation of the man-made Salton Sea has caused algal blooms from concentrated fertilizer runoff, botulism-tainted fish, massive bird die-offs that required 24/7 incineration of the carcasses, and toxic, foul-smelling clouds of dust that wafted into Los Angeles.
vPP77 Today I learned they tried to make a British version of That 70's Show but got cancelled after only 6 episodes
loO5 TIL that a man was tried and convicted of raping and murdering a 16-year-old girl in Texas. When DNA analysis was discovered the court of appeals denied him a retrial even though he was not a match.
dDAN9 TIL John Brabazon Ponsonby was arrested during the French Revolution for being an aristocrate but was let free because he was too handsome to hang.