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TIL: 9 out of 10 homes in the USA are under-insulated.

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OoA66 TIL The Flintstones used to advertise cigarettes
78npb TIL the life expectancy of people with down syndrome has risen from 25 years old in 1983 to 60 years old today.
KYL44 TIL about baby cages. The first commercial patent for a baby cage was filed in 1922 by Emma Read of Spokane, Washington.
gMRA4 TIL that Willem Dafoe had to use a penis-double for the movie Antichrist because, according to the director Lars von Trier, the actor's own dick was 'confusingly large'.
8eQKG TIL An archaeologist spent ten days at Canada's Fort Conger historic site at the northern tip of Ellesmere Island to scan it with a laser to make a 3D model of it. Conger was where Peary employed Inughuit people from Greenland to help him reach the pole