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TIL 2013 was a big year for the baby name CHEESE
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TIL the human womb is the oxygen equivalent of the top of Mt Everest, designed to keep the fetus asleep 95% of the time
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TIL that Henry Ford once tried to start a colony in the middle of the Brazilian rainforest called "Fordlandia", in which the locals were forced to live a midwestern American lifestyle until they rebelled and chased their managers into the forest
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TIL that a 2010 study showed that 5000 people with PhDs were janitors.
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TIL that the Jurassic period is named after the french moutain of Jura where geological elements of that period were named "terrains jurassiques" in 1829 by Alexandre Brongniart
BpQy
TIL many passengers on a Boeing 767 crash landing in the ocean died because they inflated their life jackets too early while still inside the cabin