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TIL in 2003 the German government tried to ban far-right political party NPD but failed because the government informants in the party had written too much of the material used against them in the trial

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yQd7M TIL about a Social Experiment in the US in the 1990s that moved poor families to richer neighborhoods, findings showed that while it didn't change the income of families that moved, the young children of those families grew up to have incomes 33% larger than children who didn't move
OorlX TIL the duck-billed platypus coexisted with dinosaurs, with scientists dating them back to the Jurassic period.
JYPQm TIL the earliest born human to be photographed is Conrad Heyer, a revolutionary war veteran who crossed the delaware with George Washington and was born in 1749.
Ood9X TIL about “dissimilation.” A linguistic phenomenon where people tend to drop an R if it is in the middle of a word and comes before another syllable that has an R. Ex.“suprise”/“surprise,”/“forward”“forward,” /“catepillar”/“caterpillar,” and “paticular”/“particular.”
VMlr8 TIL that if a pilot ejects above 16,400 feet, sensors in the seat will cause it to free-fall until the air is more breathable, after which the parachute will automatically deploy.