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TIL 70% of African-American children and 58% of Hispanic children do not know how to swim compared to 40% white children.

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Zyeo TIL that Jenny’s phone number, 867-5309, is not only a prime number, but also a double prime and a member of a primitive Pythagorean triple
BrE4W TIL Della Porta (1563) invented a method of writing secret messages inside eggs. Ink transferred from the shell to the boiled egg inside. The message could only be revealed when cracked and peeled
0wBbA TIL the Irish Myth of "Stingy Jack” about a man who tricked the devil and therefore kept out of hell but is not welcome in heaven. He wanders the earth with a Lantern and Halloween is his time of year.
7rv6X TIL about sakotis, a Lithuanian tree-shaped cake made by continuously pouring layers of batter onto a rotating cylinder. A 2 kilo cake uses 30 eggs, but the largest one ever made was 2 meters tall and used 1200 eggs!
VBOMm TIL that Phineas Gage survived an accident where a metal rod pierced his skull. It happened in 1948, while working on a new railroad line, a three-foot-long metal rod pierced his left cheek, passed behind his eye, and perforated part of his brain. He survived.