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TIL that there are more current members of the United States Senate that were born before World War 2 started (11) than were born after the first Moon landing (6)

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KYvpa TIL in a family with twelve children, six of the boys were diagnosed with schizophrenia and were later found to possess a genetic mutation that is so vital to brain function that it could help researchers understand how schizophrenia works.
oX1W TIL of Russia’s 2,000 female snipers in WWII including Lyudmila Pavlichenko who had 309 confirmed kills, 36 of which were enemy snipers
W7Vd TIL that for part of the year Herring breed so voraciously that the shorelines of Alaska become coated in a thick scum of sperm.
P1P1e TIL that every Star Wars movie had the line,"I have a bad feeling about this".
0wx8N TIL that I'm a jackass