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TIL Chainsaws were developed to aid in childbirth

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p4pN TIL that royalty use ‘We’ to refer to themselves as a way of showing that they speak on behalf of themselves and the nation. In past times this was also used to indicate that they spoke on behalf of God.
jNg6E Til that Uruguay has the highest cow to human ratio of the world with a 3.59 ratio which is 12 million to 3.3 million approx
GYMWJ TIL that Ken Jennings' historic Jeopardy! run nearly ended before it began. Jennings' first Final Jeopardy answer of "Who is Jones" had to be adjudicated before it was allowed. If he hadn't been given credit, he would have finished in 3rd, on his first episode.
QJwJe TIL that hiccups are an inheritance from our amphibians ancestors: it used to help in the respiration process, allowing water to pass through our ancestors' gills. Now they serve no purposes.
rN6Ao TIL prominent "sovereign citizen" David Wynn Miller believed he developed an infallible form of legal syntax that could easily prove people's innocence. In every instance of its use in court it has been described as complete nonsense.