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TIL There’s a biker gang who sit in courtrooms to help sexually abused kids feel relaxed when giving evidence.

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4bp6 TIL that four-year-old children on welfare in the United States have been exposed to an average of 30 million fewer words than children of higher income families.
4kLBJ TIL the way NYC has bodegas, Australia has milk bars. Modeled initially on American soda fountains, they’ve been on the decline since the 70s due to competition from supermarkets
wow7M TIL it's estimated that half of the current world population is alive because we are able to make nitrogen fertilizer at an industrial scale using the method developed by Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch.
KOnMG TIL in 1997 a division by zero on the USS Yorktown's database system brought down all the machines on the ship's network, causing the propulsion system to fail.
d86DK TIL of Íslendingabók (the Book of Icelanders), an online geneaological database formed for anti-incest purposes and because of the fact that all native Icelanders are somehow related.