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TIL China's single child policy resulted in groups of people that had never encountered genetic siblings. The notion of "sibling" was a hard one for the children to grasp - a task made more difficult by the Chinese tendency to use the term for "brother" or "sister" when talking about cousins

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4X1AN TIL The average age of becoming a grandparent in the US is 50 years for women and a couple of years older for men. Most grandparents have multiple (5 to 6 on average) grandchildren
aLNy TIL that a 6-minute, fan-made Batman movie exists where Batman fights Predator, Alien, and the Joker. It premiered at Comic Con in 2003 and Kevin Smith called it “possibly the truest, best Batman movie ever made.”
N77WJ TIL in 2014 a man in South Africa was transporting 2 giraffes in an open trailer. While going under an overpass, one of the giraffes hit its head on the overpass and died, due to head trauma. Thankfully, the other survived.
gMDV9 TIL that the strongest chilli in the world can kill you by burning up your airways, and it was initially developed as a local anesthetic
peAG TIL On this day in 1987 R. Budd Dwyer would commit suicide on national tv thus inspiring Filter’s song Hey Man, Nice Shot