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TIL that the closer a mother's second and forth fingers are in length, the more likely it is that she will have sons

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781Z TIL in the Barbican Centre, London, there is an indoor “Rain Room”, in which you can experience walking through rain without getting wet.
prwp TIL Jack Johnson (the first ever African American heavyweight boxing champion) was pulled over for a $50 speeding ticket, but he gave the officer $100 telling him to keep the change as he was going to make the return trip at the same speed.
jNAyp TIL in Fahrenheit 451 the gov't didn't burn books because they were an oppressive dictatorship. The people voted to ban the books because they had short attention spans didn't want to be offended
1POP TIL that extinction was only accepted as a fact in late 18th century after Georges Cuvier, the father of paleontology, disproved the old theory that it was impossible for species to go extinct because God wouldn’t wipe out a species he spent time creating for his Divine Plan.
beM4 TIL that it’s not just the job market that makes recent grads unhappy or even depressed. It’s also strongly connected to the way our generation has been raised.