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TIL Bullying, child abuse, and stress causes children to age faster at a cellular level and leads to physical and mental health problems even decades later, including an earlier death.

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Ook1g TIL The red-lipped batfish (Ogcocephalus darwini) lives in the Galapagos. It has large, pouting red lips, uses its fins to walk or scurry along the sea floor, and has an illicium in the center of its head that resembles a human nose. The standard lifespan is 12 years.
pYy7Q TIL about the Dyatlov Pass incident- A mysterious event where nine Russian hikers died in the Ural Mountains in 1959 under unexplained and bizarre circumstances, sparking decades of conspiracy theories.
ne4bo TIL in 1987 Count Chocula had to be pulled from store shelves as boxes showed Dracula wearing a prominent Jewish Star of David, caused by a 6-pointed medallion not being drawn correctly.
DKle TIL printer ink costs $4,285 per litre. In comparision, Chanel No. 5 perfume sells at 1,600.
7rxx TIL - until 1993, in North Carolina, a husband could legally rape his wife under the spousal exemption from rape laws - 33 states still regard spousal rape as a lesser crime.