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TIL Men over 40 are 6x more likely to have a child with autism compared to men under 30.

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p81Eb TIL that horsehair worms are parasites. The can live inside a cricket and control it boosting chemicals in its host's brain. They also eat all cricket's stored-up fat and crickets lose their chirp.
wLK8M "Suicides are on the rise across the US and have become the second leading cause of death in many age groups."
OoPde TIL NY Rangers fan still chant "Potvin Sucks" at every game, against every team, even though Dennis Potvin retired from the NY Islanders in 1988.
neBWY TIL in 2004 Nasa discovered that Titan, a moon of Saturn has massive lakes of liquid methane. Titan is the only planet other than earth where lakes of liquid have been discovered.
8eeLX TIL That Zoroastrianism was the official Religion of the first Persian Empire