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TIL about Xennials, a micro-generation described as having had "an analog childhood and a digital adulthood"

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6EL0Y TIL about Bobby, Eddy and David; three identical twins separated at birth but reunited at 19 years of age. However, their separation and reunion may have not been pure coincidence, but infact a work of unethical psychiatric research.
0wXGp TIL electricity was first installed in the White House in 1891. It was such a new concept that President Benjamin Harrison and his wife both refused to touch light switches due to their fear of electrocution so the White House staff had to follow them around and turn the lights off and on for them
e9yD TIL in ancient Rome urine was a taxed commodity due to its value as a cleaning product.
Xp48 TIL that the male brain is on average 9% larger than a female brain, even after correcting for body size.
l7ee1 TIL that Tommy Zeigler is the longest-serving death row inmate in the United States. He was sentenced to death by Florida in 1976 for killing 4 people in 1975. Over nearly 50 years, a team of lawyers, a private investigator, a true-crime author and others have uncovered major issues with the case.