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TIL that according to studies, the average high school student has the same amount of anxiety as a 1950’s child psychiatric patients.

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X0gKX TIL that according to the bible, Adam, Eve, and a bunch of their descendants lived for several centuries, some even getting close to a millennium.
OGYoR TIL that a microscopic inspection of the roots of Ramesses II's hair indicate that one of Egypt's most famous pharaohs was a natural redhead from a family of redheads
E171p TIL The song Alouette is about a French Canadian man who caught a lark and is telling it how he’s going to pluck its feathers
6E15l TIL the first year basketball was played in the Olympics was during the 1936 Berlin games and was played outdoors on a dirt/clay court designed for tennis. During the gold medal game played between USA and Canada it rained 2" and both teams only managed to score 8 points combined in the 2nd half.
b9BRp TIL that Yale University is named after Elihu Yale, "the most overrated philanthropist in history," instead of main philanthropist Jeremiah Dummer, because Dummer College would have been a bad name.