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TIL Studies show that around 70-74% of parents who have multiple kids have a favorite child.

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ZPZG TIL that Constantinople became Istanbul because people started referring to it as “The City” and the Greek phrase for “In The City” is pronounced “Is Tin Poli.” Over time, this became Istanbul.
vJQL TIL Israel Keyes, serial killer, would travel via plane from Alaska to the the continental U.S. to bury murder kits. He would return years later to retrieve them and kill at random. He had no victim profile
oRWJ7 TIL blue eyes are blue due to a lack of melanin which lets more light scatter making them appear blue in the same way that it makes the sky appear blue
6EWl TIL In 1937 a pharmaceutical company marketed, without prior testing, an antibiotic made using a known poison as a solvent, causing the death of over 100 people and the birth of the FDA
Pv0J TIL sunflowers can “remove up to 95% of uranium of contaminated water in 24 hours”. And “experiments in Chernobyl have demonstrated that they can concentrate on 55 kg of plant dry weight all the cesium and strontium radioactivity from an area of 75 m2”.