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TIL Actress Jodie Foster was born three years after her parents got divorced. She was conceived while her mom was visitin her dad for child support.

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0wkNp TIL The 8 hour workday was devised so that workers could evenly divide 24 hours between: "Eight hours' labour, Eight hours' recreation, Eight hours' rest"
N7Py6 TIL Hurricane Harvey victims in Texas were refused government aid unless they pledged to never to boycott Israel.
XGQP TIL in 1962 news channel NBC paid a West Berlin team 50,000DM ($150,000 today) to dig under the Berlin Wall, on the condition that NBC could film the escape. 29 East Germans managed to escape, and the resulting NBC film, The Tunnel, won 3 Emmies.
1MOD TIL 9% of school-aged children are diagnosed with ADHD and medicated in the US, compared with 0.5% in France. The discrepancy comes from differences in treatment. France found that changing social context, not prescribing drugs, mitigated the behavioural problems in the majority of cases.
9Ywwp TIL that there is a mushroom in Oregon that is roughly 2,400 years old, and has a root system that covers over three square miles of land.