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TIL The factoid "the brain doesn't finish developing until 25" is an extremely misleading summary of a complex phenomena

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Lk90Q TIL the quote beginning "Do not pray for an easy life..." did not originate from Bruce Lee or Kennedy, rather it was from the sermons of a pastor named Phillips Brooks.
PYxDG TIL in 1957 Tulsa Oklahoma buried a Plymouth Belvedere to commemorate Oklahoma’s 50th anniversary. In addition, citizens entered guesses as to what Tulsa’s population would be in 2007, closets person would win the car. When the vault was opened it was filled with water and the car was ruined.
vwdx TIL An ant mill is an observed phenomenon in which a group of army ants, which are blind, are separated from the main foraging party, lose the Pheromone track and begin to follow one another, forming a continuously rotating circle. The ants will eventually die of exhaustion.
OGeve TIL That Australia Was The Third Country to Successfully Launch A Satellite Into Orbit
YpLgW TIL when President Polk asked Congress to declare war on Mexico citing that it had "shed American blood upon the American soil", then-Representative Abraham Lincoln protested with resolutions demanding to know the "particular spot of soil on which the blood of our citizens was so shed."