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TIL the Letters Q, W, and X were ince illegal in Turkey

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M7JrB TIL Children with an actively engaged father perform much better in school, some data shows that they are 33% percent less likely to repeat a class and 43% more likely to get As in school.
Onge TIL the name of the stretchy glue that holds new credit cards to the paper is called Fugitive Glue.
VBQ5k TIL that the President of China, Xi Jinping, has a salary of roughly $22 000 a year.
aN5b TIL that as a teenager, Lou Reed’s parents made him undergo electroshock therapy 3 times a week in an attempt to cure him of his bisexuality
kJ9d4 TIL short-sightedness (myopia) is not entirely genetic, with environmental factors also contributing to the risk of developing it. The risk of myopia can be decreased by having young children spend more time outside