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TIL that it is mathematically impossible to comb the hair on a ball without creating at least one cowlick

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EXNX TIL women often go into labor during storms because of the change in barometric pressure, hence why “storm babies” happen.
xV5kg TIL of the “perfect murder.” In 1929, man was found shot to death in his locked apartment in New York. The door and windows had been locked from the inside. No gun or fingerprints were found inside the apartment.
aDb9 Today I learned that Chocolate Milk was invented in Ireland
WwGA TIL that time runs approximately 0.0000000014 percent slower on the Iss than on earth - after 6 months in the ISS, an astronaut will have aged 0.007 less than someone who had spent 6 months on earth, all due to time dilation.
OG884 TIL Karl Bushby - a British ex-paratrooper - set out to walk around the world in 1998. He's currently at the Iranian border.