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TIL "knee" and "knight" used to be pronounced "k-nee" and "k-night"

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kOgE1 TIL North Korea law specifies ‘three generations of punishment’. If you commit a crime, your children and grandchildren will also receive the full brunt of punishment, which often involves a lifetime in prison, also children born in prison are raised as prisoners because their “blood is guilty”.
OG6ea TIL that though Samoa and American Samoa are only a few hundred miles apart, the islands are 24 hours apart on calendar
Lk8m TIL Australia’s outback hosts the world’s only known record of a dinosaur stampede, featuring well over 100 unique sets of footprints.
NXV76 TIL: A randomized clinical trial has shown that donating blood and/or plasma could significantly lower PFASs (Forever Chemicals) in your bloodstream.
LQjGm TIL that Max Born, one of the founding fathers of quantum mechanics, is the grandfather of Olivia Newton-John