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TIL girls with absentee fathers go through puberty earlier than their peers

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d86Jd TIL: The French drain may have been invented in France but Henry Flagg French described and popularized them in his 1859 book Farm Drainage
KYMjB TIL that Lewis Stone, who played Mickey Rooney's kindly old father in the Andy Hardy films, died of a heart attack while chasing the neighborhood kids off his lawn.
jNeQv TIL that the Ancient Greeks would have treated the Illiad and the Odyssey as part of a series of eight books by various authors. However, only Homer's books have survived in full, perhaps because they were the most popular.
lBnN TIL a Swiss national is serving a 4 year jail term in UAE, after 3 poppy seeds from a bread roll he ate at Heathrow airport were found on his clothes.
wL9y8 TIL Colonel Sanders wounded a business rival in a deadly shootout in the 1920's. The future fast-food giant shot a Standard Oil gas station owner for painting over one of his billboards. All charges were dropped.