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TIL that blowing out the candles on your birthday cake increases the bacteria on it by up to 1,400%

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X0pb8 TIL most birds in our world are monogamous
5ADB TIL Farrah Gray is the youngest person to have a Wall Street office and is estimated to be worth 20 million dollars. At 13 years old he founded Farr-Out Food which in a period of one year had received food orders of over 1.5 million dollars making him a millionaire at 14.
16bWW TIL that "Clever Hans," a horse in the early 1900s, seemed to do math but was actually responding to unconscious cues from his owner, leading to a breakthrough in psychology called the "Clever Hans Effect.
Zo4a TIL in 2002, South Park made an episode about how The Simpsons had already adapted nearly every possible story, called “Simpsons Already Did It”. The Simpsons have now made more episodes since that time than they had before it aired.
nDGb TIL Irrational numbers are called irrational because they aren’t ratio-nal (they can’t be described as a ratio or fraction)