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TIL "Jelly Babies" were first named "Unclaimed Babies"

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VgDB TIL a Hungarian psychologist wrote a book on how to raise a genius. He proposed his ideas to a teacher. They married and raised three chess grandmasters, two of them became record-breakers and one even became the first female to beat the top ranked male.
oBl48 TIL about Anthropologist Prof Joy Hendry who has spent 45 years researching Japan
94ND TIL deep in Africa there are accounts of people seeing dinosaur-like creatures that resembles a Brachiosaurus or Apatosaurus. The locals call it Mokèlé-mbèmbé and there have been several documented expeditions to find it from as early as 1776 to as late as 2012.
d04Q TIL, a year ago, Neptune completed it’s first orbit since it was discovered. That’s over 165 years!
PYmKg TIL That movie ratings are arbitrarily handed out by a full-time Board of 8 to 13 parents in Los Angeles, CA. The only qualifications are "parenthood experience" and possessing an "intelligent maturity".