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TIL About 3 percent of children cannot have the father their mothers say they have.

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Y5gd TIL Alexander Hamilton’s son was a lawyer who represented a woman divorcing Aaron Burr, 30 years after Burr famously killed his father in a duel.
nlmd TIL A Mansion is being built in the Ozarks which is designed to be earthquake resistant, bullet proof, blast proof, tornado resistant, bug resistant, fire resistant, and shall need little to no net energy to heat or cool.
9w8bp TIL in the UK alone, some 7 million Halloween costumes are binned each year, equivalent of 2000 tons of plastic, and globally less than 13% of material inputs to clothing manufacture are recycled and only 1% of clothing textiles are recycled into new clothes. According to The Fairyland Trust.
608w TIL Mel Brooks’ Blazing Saddles premiered at a drive-in movie theater and people riding horses got free admission to watch the movie.
NXP8M TIL that 4 out of every 10 people aged 18-39 have a tattoo.