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TIL that it's harder to detect autism in girls because it presents differently

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oB5nL TIL Mozart can reduce seizure frequency in people with epilepsy
d8LWd TIL that Michael Boddenberg, the minister of finance of the German state of Hesse, once directed a school for butchers and bakers.
gg9L TIL Paleontologists found fossils of “Machimosaurus rex,” a prehistoric crocodile that would have been the size of a bus, 30 ft. long and weighing 3 tons; the skull discovered is over 5 ft. long, the world’s largest sea-dwelling crocodile.
p16p TIL the FBI tried to intimidate the publishers of MAD magazine for making fun of the FBI and Hoover
695E7 TIL at one point the sport of Jai Alai was a gambling alternative to horse and greyhound racing in the US and grew a following in Florida. Today only one fronton, the arena in which it's played, remains in the state.