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TIL Babies are born without kneecaps. They don’t appear until the child is 2-6 years old

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5dEr TIL a child named “Genie” was once locked alone in a room from the age of 20 months to 13 years, unexposed to speech
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gMNJX TIL that from 1746 until the precedent was overturned in 1996, English law considered bagpipes not a musical instrument, but a weapon of war.
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