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TIL that babies are born without kneecaps.

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kJL94 TIL Henry V, while still prince, was hit by an arrow near his left nostril during the Battle of Shrewsbury. The arrow shaft broke leaving the arrow point buried six inches deep in his head. Court surgeon John Bradmore devised a special tool to extract the arrow point and saved the prince's life.
XxwE TIL that cargo ships leave the equivalent of contrails along their route that can be seen from space. Water molecules accumulate on pollutants coming from the exhaust of ships which essentially seeds clouds. These clouds are known as ship tracks.
JYQwv TIL Alan Turing, WW2 codebreaker and father of modern computer science, was also a world-class distance runner of his time. He ran a 2:46 marathon in 1949 (2:36 won an olympic gold in 1948). His local running club discovered him when he overtook them repeatedly while out running alone for relaxation
ZpL9p TIL U+3164 (Hangul Filler) is a Unicode character that looks completely blank but isn’t. It was originally designed as a placeholder for Korean syllables, and today it’s also used in odd text tricks, like blank-looking messages.
VB7vQ TIL It only took humans 11 years to start a World War following the invention of the airplane.