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TIL that out of 1,000,000 LEGO blocks manufactured, only about 18 blocks are rejected.

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XEVVr TIL President Grover Cleveland first met his future wife Frances when he was 27 and she was a newborn. He bought her a baby carriage and helped raise her following her father's death. He then married her when she turned 21 (he was 49). She remains the youngest wife of a sitting president.
6Pe8 TIL major cities like New York, Paris, and Toronto create and maintain fake building fronts in urban centres to conceal vent shafts and utilities. The ‘property’ in Brooklyn concealing a 19th century vent shaft is worth over 2 million!
VBlaD TIL that Frank Ryan earned a PhD in mathematics in 1965 while playing in the NFL for the Cleveland Browns.
BrKAb TIL that the sound we make when we sneeze is not natural and we feel obliged to add it. Deaf poeple don't add any sound effect, like "Atchoo" when they sneeze.
p8nVb TIL that when an Army depot was built in 1941, a herd of white deer with a recessive gene were trapped inside. This created a whole heard of the rare deer to flourish inside.