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TIL babies have nearly 100 more bones than adults

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Xrpr TIL: Adult frogs of the species Pseudis Paradoxa are only a quarter of the size of their tadpoles. They are commonly known as “Paradoxical Frog”.
Z8ZxG TIL there was a walled city in Hong Kong that had no laws and the population was 119 times as dense as NYC.
e0QeJ TIL they tried to approve the sale of the Chicago Stock Exchange on December 2016 to a Chinese Consortium out of Chicago.
b9BB0 TIL Gillian Anderson's performance as Dana Scully in The X-Files sparked a phenomenon called the "Scully Effect" where the character's prominence inspired a measurable increase in the amount of women entering the scientific, medical, and law enforcement fields
jNlQa TIL that Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph suffered immense personal tragedies, execution of his brother Maximilian in Mexico, suicide of his son and heir, murder of his wife and finally assassination of his nephew Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 that lead to WW1 and destruction of Habsburg Empire