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TIL More people are bitten each year by New Yorkers than by sharks.

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R7Oxl TIL that while Sonora Smart Dodd heard a church sermon about Mother’s Day she felt that fatherhood needed recognition as well. She approached a church and suggested June 5th (her father’s birthday) as the day of honour for fathers. The church chose the third Sunday in June to be Father’s Day.
697O7 TIL the preferred walking speed for many people is 1.42 m/s
jN1xp TIL that there is a company that will press a vinyl record that contains your ashes with your favourite music.
VZJG TIL a bird that is endemic to the Amazon Basin called the Hoatzin is hatched with claws on its wings; A genetic remnant that is evidence of birds dinosaurean lineage.
wL5MJ TIL Dr. Seuss supported Japanese-American internment, drove his wife to suicide while having an affair, and never had any children of his own.