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TIL: the birth certificate was invented as a way to verify people’s ages in order to enforce new child labor restrictions

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rRJey TIL James Franco has a mutation on a gene that allows him to sleep for about half the time that we normally need
nWD8Y TIL that Richard Norris Williams survived the Titanic disaster, was told his legs should be amputated due to severe frostbite, but refused—and went on to win the U.S. National Tennis Championships.
WkeJL TIL: China accounts for 40% of the tobacco consumption worldwide. 52 percent of adult Chinese men smoke.
e0ob6 TIL the scientist who insisted doctors should wash their hands before medical procedures was despised, ridiculed, and removed from society for being anti-science.
yEaa TIL Lisbon is the oldest city in Western Europe