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TIL there’s a valve in fetal hearts that diverts blood away from the lungs while in utero. It begins closing at the first breath as the baby gets oxygen from it’s own lungs for the first time.

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MrA TIL The London Olympic Village is providing a record 150,000 condoms to this year’s 10,490 athletes.
4v8a TIL that the Eiffel Tower is not painted one uniform color. The darker top gradually turns to the lighter bottom so that it is perceived to be the same color.
dPQ9 TIL that the SS officer who arrested Anne Frank and the other inhabitants of the secret annex later bought her book to see if he was in it. (He wasn’t.)
Eg67X TIL: A suicide bomber was thwarted by an Afghan stray dog which barked and snarled at the man, which caused him to prematurely detonate at the entrance. The dog was then flown to the US and appeared on Oprah and was adopted. However, she was captured and euthanized by mistake at an animal shelter.
JYKBl TIL Americans are the most charitable group of people in the entire world. "Americans are about twice as generous in their private giving as Canadians, and 3-15 times as charitable as the residents of other developed nations. Americans volunteer more than almost any other wealthy people."