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TIL nearly 8 in 10 Americans grew up with at least 1 sibling, making siblings a more ubiquitous presence in early life than fathers.

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PYK9J TIL about Hemigrapsus estellinensis, an extinct species of crab that lived solely in a small saltwater spring in the Texas panhandle, 500 miles from the ocean. Probably a relic of the Pleistocene Era, the species was wiped out when the U.S. Army built a dike around the spring in 1964.
MQJW TIL the Members of Westboro Baptist Church are basically two families.
QJrjM TIL that in Ireland you cant own a lake or river but by owning the land on both sides you can own the bed and the airspace above and completely control access to it
vYgK TIL that Norwegians are the only ones in the World with a ~0.0% IE6 usage.
R5x58 TIL learned that the first basketball slam dunk was performed in 1936 at Madison Square Garden by Joe Fortenberry.